The Pond Planet - A Spec Evolution Project

[@OceanWilks]

pondgea for the planet seems like a good name

[@mandrakeblake-tw1uv]

I see what you did there. ; )

[@takenname8053]

I support this pun!

[@thaxasaurian]

I like this name

[@Caratrox]

Ironically there was a cartoon called bread winners that used this name😅

[@DeadlyVeggie23]

@@Caratroxdude I LOVED that show

[@BobBob-tr7wi]

Look. If a large "marine" frog species ever pops up, you gotta call it "Buccaneer Bufo"

[@celticconlanger6401]

Bufo Buccaneerii

[@Sea_foam-vt6dx]

I don't care what anyone says, both of you are GENUS!

[@KingDrakoTyrell]

Paleo nerds unite

[@TheGenericDragonKeeper]

Nice well I hope I can design a salamander for this or a bad that adapted to eat aquatic snails

[@That_OneRandomGuy]

I was also thinking about them evolving to look more salamander like and then fill the niches of large semi-aquatic ambush or fishing predator in fresh water, usually occupied by crocodilians. They would probably evolve to resemble animals like koolasuchus or prionosuchus in my opinion.

[@a_Potato_person]

apollo and pond planet are carrying my spec evo needs

[@Sfaegbe]

Are there any others

[@wendylacey2745]

For me it’s Serina, Tales of Kaimere, Project Apollo, and Dragonology. Hamster Paradise being a small bonus in my category.

[@dada_natureview]

yeah pond planet, project apollo and serina are the best spec evo projects

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

No one's gonna mention the chad alien biospheres by bibliridion?

[@FizzySugarStar]

Thank you!​@@gadielgonzalez2755

[@heeheeyup35]

Another iconic “pond” creature I think of is the garter snake, which I think could perform quite well with the abundance of invertebrates, minnows, frogs, and rabbits

[@tessabakker662]

Imagine if they developed into something resembling Mosasauridae!

[@pachacutti1012]

I live near a pond and these snakes are EVERYWHERE. Definitely a must add

[@deadchannelagainaeeerrrrrr6047]

Yeah and they actually usually get the uno reverse card and get turned into a chalk outline by the frog they were gonna eat so that way they don't kill everything

[@marcusrattray1158]

great point. And they might radiate/ diversify into python and sea snake analogues. The fake pythons would have to be big to compete with the size of the barely predated rabbits, which would get bigger due to either island gigantism or dodo effect. Rabbits might also develop venom immunities, causing selective pressure for constrictor hunting methods and loss of their weak venom. The fake sea snakes would develop a potent venom (like neurotoxins and blood clotting ones) to disable fast swimming fishes' mobility. They might also develop this as more of a defensive mechanism along with bright color scales on their underbelly. Their vibration sense can be honed as a warning system for predators underneath. Their heat "vision" could be honed or co-opted into detecting bioluminescence and faint red wavelengths to help with hunting in deeper depths. They might loose their sense of smell completely to facilitate the development of one or multiple new super senses I mentioned above. sorry for the essay lmao, I get crackhead tunnel vision.

[@MonsieurWeevil]

Or the grass snake.

[@absentfish1706]

Pondea. That's the name. To see gigantic filter-feeding minnows would be pretty cool. And a catfish with prehensile whiskers to catch its prey. Maybe even a catfish evolving to fill the octopus-like niche.

[@AnApePlaysMinecraft]

What about molluscs that already exist in pond ecosystems diversifying? Snails maybe?

[@dxfcgvbhj]

What about giant ducks! Ducks are already filter feeders, after all Sure, they would be restricted in size due to needing to return to land to lay their eggs, but there are definitely ways of getting around that

[@Adaptibility]

I think a good idea for the evolution of frogs would be for them to become more arboreal. They could start climbing the mangrove trees to avoid the fish, turtles and other creatures and when the trees start flourishing more they could become less amphibious and more arboreal. They could diversify much more once forests form(if you want them to). Maybe you could have them gain kind of a chameleon niche and prey on the flying insects or just make them very agile and basically become monkeys.

[@njmoonfrost6145]

Ooooh!!! Yes!!!

[@stoatsarebetterthanbeavers]

Meanwhile the funny little crocodyliforms in the corner of the ponds. Oh and also i think that salamanders or newts should be in this project too. Also a name suggestion: Kinedvede, based of Kis nedves eden which is little wet eden in Hungarian

[@Cranberrie123]

Maybe it'd be cool if there was just salamanders and they become the crocodylomorph stand in eventually

[@chancellor8797]

@@Cranberrie123 how bout we compromise on a small caiman species

[@tyrannapusandfriends6254]

​@@chancellor8797 or even gharials could be interesting (and not as aggressive as crocodiles for example)

[@gandsproductions5105]

Can't wait for part 4 when we get herons that have convergently evolved with terror birds.

[@petrfedor1851]

Azdarchids but birds.

[@gandsproductions5105]

@@petrfedor1851 avians but non avian style

[@justastaronblox5823]

For the Giga ponds, maybe we could see a frigate bird like heron morph, and I think kingfishers would be a good introduction to the pond world if they arent to similar to herons

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

dear father, its been really long i very miss you. we CRAVE for content

[@adamgallyot9063]

Terralacus - Terra (ground, country, territory, Earth, land, dry land) - lacus (lake, cistern, pool, hollow, hollowness, pond)

[@Mr-__-Sy]

ducks evolving into dragons let's go, please make them be able to breath fire

[@raditz1101]

Bruh lmao

[@wonderman7166]

I think (Realistically) they would only be able to evolve into Flightless birds similar to *'Terror Birds'*

[@Mr-__-Sy]

@@wonderman7166 hey drakes and other two legged dragons exist in miths and have any of you forgot yi ki?

[@deadchannelagainaeeerrrrrr6047]

Actually maybe they could evolve to eject there stomach acid, there's already a species of baby bird that does this and if it hits any unfortunate predator tryna eat it they gonna get some big boy burns

[@Mr-__-Sy]

@@deadchannelagainaeeerrrrrr6047 well combine that with the fact that they do have teeth and that their beak can become hardened and fire proofed... you got dragon right there if the puke is caustic and flammable enough

[@Alien_Evolution]

I am IMPRESSED, this is awesome! I do think you did the rabbits a little dirty, though. They barely changed while the herons and turtles evolved so much already! Anyway, good job

[@HouseWheatStudios]

aah I shall redeem the rabbits in the next episodes, don’t you worry. Our flufftails haven’t seen anything yet

[@tuckerbetz9585]

Hi alien evo

[@roboticartist2793]

​@@HouseWheatStudios you ok man? Been almost half a year.

[@justadolphin8428]

How about a “pet store” planet? (Hamsters, budgies, macaws, Amazon freshwater fish, ball pythons, geckos, finches, hermit crabs, and the typical reef fish)? Dogs and cats optional, but I omitted them because they’d take over

[@MrPhanda03]

I would love to see a speculative evolution project centered around crocodiles becoming more terrestrial

[@That_OneRandomGuy]

Could be cool, but I think it takes away some of the creative freedom as we already know how terrestrial crocodiles would probably evolve and look like, as we have many terrestrial crocodilian or similar archosaurs' fossils as examples

[@dada_natureview]

imagine a planet very...very slowwly getting colder so crocodiles have time to evolve fur/feathers. i thinks that would be a creative project.

[@ahmicqui9396]

​@@dada_natureviewor they'd just return to being warm-blooded like they once were...

[@lenosflarrethedragonking4300]

Crocodiles and their amcestors have already evolved multiple times to be terrestrial. It's not really interesting for spec evo thing.

[@henrykkeszenowicz4664]

Crocodiles already did this multiple times before, during and after the dinosaurs. They essentially become upright crocodilians with dinosaur-like heads reaching length of 6-7 meters(20ish ft) and the mass of about a ton. Saurosuchus, Razanandrongobe and Barinasuchus are three species from completely different times and yet they all look alike. Barinasuchus is pretty fun. It's Cenozoic, mammals dominate most megafaunal niches, and this reptile straight out of Triassic period shows up, dominates the ecosystem as an apex predator and becomes the largest land predator in the whole Cenozoic Era.

[@NizeDirt]

Bass fishing here would go so crazy

[@thomasmuesli]

The bass would fish for *you*

[@diegoogeid2133]

Since you mentioned sharing ideas that we had, I made a predatory mole species in my fantasy world These moles are covered in thick fur, almost blind, have massive claws able to cut through stone, long trunks that give them a keen sense of smell, and have long tusks they use to compete amongst thier colonies. These moles prey on almost anything they find and bring them to thier small colonies of 7 to 12 individuals and even have been known to prey on humans and even thier dead. I love these guys and thank you for letting me share off this idea

[@thenerdbeast7375]

"They are just tundras but with more water" I don't know if you've seen a tundra but its actually already a very soggy place with lots of standing water, its already a perfect fir for this world.

[@Theplanettera]

We REALY need part 2

[@randomchannel1184]

This is one of the most original piece of spec evo in recent years. Seed worlds have been done to death, but you ended up making the entire planet a single biome (sort of). I’ll definitely be returning to this.

[@BigBossMan538]

I can see rabbits becoming more omnivorous and even carnivorous. Think something like the komatu from Tales of Kaimere, but without the venomous spur

[@PNyka628]

Looks like an interesting concept. With the massive swarms of mosquitoes described, maybe some creature evolves to filter-feed on them? Also, kind of missing willow trees as typical pond flora

[@gabrysstryczek6053]

4:59 I think that for carnivorous ambush turtles the perfect name would be "swamp stalker"

[@chancellor8797]

wait until you hear about snapping turtles

[@DavianPeters]

This should become a series...cause it's an awesome spec Evo concept...🔥💯🔥

[@georgekostaras]

I'm loving these "seed planet" genre of spec evolution videos

[@bi-furious5565]

Yay! A new channel that specializes in my hyper fixation! I've always loved speculative evolution! I'm currently working on a project of my own for a unique TTRPG setting. It's a world where long ago, all vibrate animals (except for fish) gained sentience through an unknown magical event. So Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians, suddenly gained souls and human like intelligence. As a result, all the niches they left behind were quickly filled by the remaining non-sentient animals. So the ecosystem is populated by giant crustaceans, insects and sea creatures, as well as the occasional spirit from a mysterious ghost realm. It's been really fun imagining both how the creatures diversify to fill the vast amount of ecological niches left open, and the cultures developed by the new animal people that inhabit the world.

[@Chocoboranger]

I can't help but wonder what keeps the forest in check. With an abundance of water, light, and wide open meadows.. this entire world should be forested

[@jitterbug5630]

Just watched this video after it randomly popped up, and I've gotta admit I love this kind of stuff. Lots of potential and thinking processes, and ponds have always been a very interesting to me. If you need a short episode idea, you could perhaps tackle a planet with an excessive amount of helium in the atmosphere, and what sort of ecosystems can form from the lighter helium air, and what animals can grow larger and develop extreme flight capabilities from utilizing the helium. I had a writing project I did with this concept, but seeing you take it on would be very interesting too

[@kremstoin]

I love love LOVE this pond world! Also the art is so good! And there's so much! So excited for the time we go in depth with the ducks evolution!

[@Animusprimalemperor6257]

This project is very interesting! I love the development of it, and the fact it basically takes organisms we often see in ponds, and turn them into something else! Can't wait to see what else is there to offer! Side note: as far as other spec evo ideas go, what not one where microbes (bacteria, fungus, archaea, protists, and even viruses) are the dominant lifeforms? Microbes in general are very, very, *VERY* underutilized in spec-evo, and are extremely underrated.

[@squareplane1803]

I’m waiting, seven months, I’ll be here when episode two comes out

[@StarMaker8442]

Snakes and salamanders def need a spotlight in the next installment.

[@alzef1375]

Yoooo, this might be my favorite spec evo project yet. Ponds and swamps are hella underrated biomes. Plus, the general feel of the project feels more accessible to aspiring people that want to post similar content. And the couple of memes sprincled around give it a very good position. Hope to see more soon! And looking forward to the crocodile-like niches and aggressive mimicry (if you'll cover it).

[@danolantern6030]

I love how i’m getting more speculative evolution projects on my feed

[@ProfQuibblefingers64]

Love this. Love Planet Apollo. Love Kaimere. Have started my own spec evo project based on my own ideas

[@Takeawayjustin]

I leked your comment

[@mgg8524]

Its so sad that there's so many spec evo related channels that make 1 amazing vid and then dissapear😔

[@lazarzilla4871]

Can’t wait to see what you present in the future And for some ideas: A world with only pigs 🐖 A world with only camels 🐪 🐫🦙 And some ideas that aren’t spec focused but interesting ideas that you might like to do and give a spec breakdown What if humans vanished, and speculative future for zoo and farm animals The speculative future of Pleistocene Park mega fauna Planet of the Jurassic park Dinosaurs Spec (fictional or real life counterparts)

[@jeffthewaffle]

When I saw the water beetle I immediately loved it, and a name idea for the aquatic beetle species is: Bootle. Idk, why but for me it just fits! 7:20

[@damchoyeozer7248]

I can already tell this series is gonna grow into a big one considering the art style and narration.

[@waylennelson6302]

I would be interested in seeing a world where all the smartest non-primate animals(Elephants, Octopi, Ravens, etc.)from Earth were put on it to speculate if any would become sapient. Love the video looking forward to whatever you make next.

[@invertedmind8937]

i’ve never really known much about biology, but this is a good reminder that it’s kinda cool to think about

[@jaypants1436]

Idea: a planet of snakes and chickens

[@wonderman7166]

Chickens would evolve into many types of species (Flying, Terrestrial, Aquatic, & Burrowing). Snakes would only evolve into: - Aquatic - Burrowing - Terrestrial

[@BlueoftheSilkWings]

@@wonderman7166 Not necessarily. There is a species of snake that can glide, so they could eventually turn this into powered flight.

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

@@wonderman7166 isnt that just Serina...?

[@wonderman7166]

@@BlueoftheSilkWings How can an animals with no Flight Muscles evolve Flight? 💀🕊️

[@wonderman7166]

@@WizzyTheWizkid No. Serina used Canaries & Fish.

[@JordanBeagle]

I love this wetlands are definitely among my favourite ecosystem

[@arturmichalowski7923]

Hello. I really like this project. Would you be interested in adding shrews in the next part? They are omnivorous and not afraid to swim underwater in order to hunt a dragonfly larvae or a tadpole for example. I think they are perfect addition for this project. You can make them evolve to be fully aquatic, since mosquitos put a lot of pressure on land, or make them undergo gigantism since there are no predators on land. You can also do both, the posibilities are endless! Shrews play a vital role in ecosystems like these, regulating the number of snails, insects and frogs among many other things.

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

somebody seems too like shrews....

[@reg7750]

Was watching this at 6 am to fall asleep and the sound you played every time you said gigapond made me so terrified

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

BAHAHHHHA

[@aguy7848]

Very interesting. I'm thoroughly looking forward to seeing how this world turns out with time. Also, what I'd like to see is a spec evolution series about a desert planet comprised of plants and animals from the Mojave desert, most notably Joshua trees, Spanish dagger, creosote, cholla, prickly pear, Mormon tea, pinyon pines, juniper, cottonwoods, rabbits, wild horses, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, lizards, and desert tortoises.

[@Joe__M]

Always love speculative evolution planets! This looks like the start of a wonderful series a la Serina, World of Birds

[@BigBossMan538]

Please continue this

[@roxanneguerette934]

You shouldve add some invertebrates like leaches or snails! :) also in the wetlands the most common plant is sphagnum moss, it would be amazing if you add some in the wetlands and separate them between bogs and fens (biologist here hehe) ;) nice work! And amazing drawings! Cant wait the next video

[@noahhosking495]

I would love to see the development of peat ecosystems within this world! The plant growth and stagnant waters would be the perfect precursors. This development could allow for really cool speciation :) Anyway, loved the video, the world of evolution is so fun to speculate about and your video is so entertaining 🔥

[@wholesome2399]

I approve this rising amount of speculative evolution projects, very nice! Glad to see Serina being such a big inspiration. Keep up the good work ^^

[@carlalexander1373]

This is a very cool project and I think you should definitely continue it. One name for the planet could be “Lacunterara”

[@BurningSunBloodyMoon]

I like the idea of this new project! Can't wait to see what weird frogs and ducks evolve. As for spec evo ideas, I have an idea for a crab-based spec evo world, partially because I like crabs, but also playing off the carcinisation memes like "There is one step and it is crab". It'd be interesting to see how the crab body plan adapts to different environments and niches, and whether crabs could reasonably adapt to many niches (what would the crab-derived equivalent of an elephant or tiger even look like?).

[@Taqterra]

Letsgooooo! This sounds awesome. Some planet spec that I would attribute would be; No moon or minor, to have level pond elevation -high(er?) gravity, to prevent tall trees -idk about tilt or orbit, if there's a configuration that provides constant global mugginess and minor variation. Its origins are fun to think about, like you said, not important, but it could be a planet that was bombarded by a stream of comets on an irregular orbit, maybe the added mass and impact moved it closer to the goldilocks zone idk. Upon discovering the planet they sent a pond variation of Noah's arc to prepare the planet for humanity. The first wave being a smattering of seeds, then fish, then mammals and birds.

[@Taqterra]

It's size or density would support a compacting effect that lends itself to a genrerally more flat and even landscape

[@KappatheWorldofTurtles-tm6zb]

This project is so fun dude :)

[@MythosMasonry-fq1up]

Oh an interesting idea. 9:36 Oh spec evo ideas One I had was a simmilar conzept to a seed world but more along the lines of a time travel story. "What if we dropped Venus flytraps into the early Carboniferous?" They have much mroe efficient photosynthesis, root systems tissues etc. compared to contemporary plants so they would very likely outcompete them even outside their highly specialised niche, but also can grow in nutrient poor soil. Something that would be very common at the time as life has simply not traveled very far inland yet. Of course there's also my own spec evo project which is on hold for now until I got more free time again, which is about life starting and evolving a highly radioactive world.

[@kaylaaldridge9284]

Out of all the spec evo projects I’ve seen this is my favorite. I’m gonna start making my own.

[@Zekeriyasenturk6513]

Name of this project??? About???

[@valentinaaugustina]

i’ve been doodling some spec evo geckoes! the lil guys might make for a fun one-off, maybe about them on an isolated island with tall trees and few predators

[@vexbane]

Hell yeah excited to see this channel grow, wish I kept all of my ideas on paper from when I was a kid since this was one of my favorite things to do in my free time.

[@Pongo.033]

NEW SEED WORLD LETS GOO

[@JordanBeagle]

I love this subscribed! Amazing you're just getting started!

[@Dakota-ud6ci]

Very fun! I’d love to paddle around this world. Here’s a SpecEvo I thought about while zonked out of my gourd, a giant city wall has been here for many centuries and deer that graze around it have evolved to be the same colour of their shadows so that when they are against the wall smaller groups at least always look double its size. I thought of this when I saw a deer do this exact thing with a street light haha. These shadow deer would never be alone in the eyes of a predator so long as they’re against the wall.

[@JordanBeagle]

I love this video! I'm looking forward to where this goes next!

[@WillytheBasilisk]

I love the idea of this project. Since wood frogs are able to live in the arctic circle it would be cool to see a frog that has evolved to the predator of the barrens. As for the ducks that have traveled north, i can't shake the idea of some of them becoming slow with no predators becoming something like a manatee in the pond. Poor pond skaters, maybe a species would evolve to be something of a cleaner of parasites for the turtles in the shallows. As for ideas of worlds, I did have one but not sure if it is possible. I ice cover planet that has a lot of active volcanos.

[@TheFearlessTitan]

One of the best ideas I herd in a while

[@TheFearlessTitan]

This is a flipping masterpiece

[@Menzobarrenza]

Lovely. I really look forward to seeing more.

[@OscarStone-pj2vx]

Sick project dude maybe you should start at the bottom of the food chain and work up like start at the carrion eaters and plants (id like to see some other birds that are not herons or ducks maybe crows? )

[@Red-gd3zb]

Love the art so much!! For another specevo project, maybe an islands planet? Kinda like an inverse of pond planet (swap the water & land), with thousands of island chains and only 2 noticeably large landmasses. I imagine the majority of the ocean would pretty shallow, and most land animals would need adaptations for traveling to different islands for resources or mates. Really awesome stuff to think about, your channel is super inspiring. Keep it up!!

[@BingBing-yy1qg]

I think that realistically pond-skates are heavily disadvantaged and would suffer extreme pressure to adapt, perhaps into a filter-feeding megafaunal crustacean-like arthropod? The second clade of these pseudo-crustacaens entirely unrelated to the diving beetles? (much like pinnipeds and cetaceans who spec'd into different niches and evolved from different kinds of mammal) The skates first adapt into "yeti-bugs" evolutionary pressure: the murky green waters of the smaller ponds can quickly become choked with algae, thick green clouds preventing the pond skates from accessing their prey in these environments. adaptation: the skates evolve huge filaments from their mouth and legs, descending beneath the pond-scum and allowing the animal to feed off of zooplankton beneath the waves. This would also allow them access to a more lucrative source of prey, allowing them to grow bigger and no longer be preyed upon by ducks/frogs HOWEVER the pond skate is STILL at a disadvantage. In the larger gigaponds and betaponds, large vortices of undercurrents would create turbulence, reducing water surface tension and ensuring that yeti-skate populations stay relatively small despite their new-found access to an enormous food source. AND they are still preyed upon by the herons. adaptation: and so, perhaps the yeti-skates to escape their food scarcity, and their predators, reduce their apility to skate on the water surface tension, and use their hydrophobic limbs to create air-chambers, collecting oxygen for use beneath the waves. And their filamentous hairs spread out, funneling zooplankton into a body that, to escape predation by fish, evolves to be larger with each generation. Leading to an enormous arthropod, using its legs to store air to make up for a lack of lungs (or perhaps its hind legs partially subsume into the thorax to create hydrophobic pockets that store air to diffuse into the body, prototype lungs) as well as with an enormous conical mouth partially formed of filaments used to feed on plankton I can see these creatures becoming the first "whales" of the world much more easily than, say, animals like the duck or the diving beetles who are relatively safe in their niches within this environment and so are not encouraged to explore further. Whereas an animal like the pond scate is forced to shed their niche that would be unsuccesful and highly contested by animals like the duck, relegating the pond skates that do not adapt, perhaps not to extinction but to scavenging their meals in a hostile environment surrounded by predators.

[@WizzyTheWizkid]

hmm actually I might use that in my spec evo project thx!

[@RanEdgar-ok3wk]

I’m so excited to see more on this! Can you maybe do something on like tree evolution and the animals Tvat evolve to be taller to eat them or more big predators like some rabbits turning to meat and canibalisim whenever times get tough? Big scary rabbits filling cheeta neish or smth! Anyway I love your video!!!!❤❤ I’m so excited to see more of what you make :D!!

[@ajaxfightsback1560]

This is an amazing video and I really enjoyed it. Narration and visuals are on point and I’d love to see more of this speculative evolution from your channel.

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

I think a video in the evolution and diversity of hexapodal (six-limbed) vertebrates would be pretty cool to see

[@eansilva5473]

I think exploring spec evolutions of monotypic species like narwhals, platypus, and ginkgos would be fascinating to look at!

[@nyancatpoptart5441]

For a small spec evolution world I thought of. What about a world that is mostly inhabited by Quilled rodents? Like Porcupines, Hedgehogs, Echidnas, Tenrecs and so fourth. I imagine that there would be a variety of plants and small invertebrates like insects to provide food for the starting animals, but the main population and focus of the seeded world would be mammals with quills or quill-like hairs. Just an idea I came up with.

[@bucketboy48]

So interesting!! I love the style of this video, very informational and yet nice flow. Would love a longer one?

[@huuuuuuh2057]

You just earned yourself a subscirber. Great stuff. I hope your channel gets as popular as Worldbuilding Notes.

[@HouseWheatStudios]

thanks so much, happy to have you :)

[@crabert8045]

This is such a cool concept for a seed world!! Can't wait to see more.

[@TerrariumDiscoveryGamingMore]

Seed world Idea: Just round orbs. That's it. Round orbs. Some that photosynthesis, some are herbivores, some are predators. Do they evolve into anything else?

[@kezmsfilms1300]

Excited to see where this project goes :D, always love speculative evolution, and the "pond" setting is not one I've seen before, closest I've seen is possible Amphiterra. Only thing I can think of is Palican or Whale like Frogs that just scoop up the unwordly abundance of mosquitoes myself. But I do say that when it comes to Spec Eve community building is often a great source of ideas, since often you can become tunnel visioned on a certain idea. Might I recomend parts where viewers just submit ideas?

[@ant8259]

U should do a spec evo episode for a planet dominated by plants. Idk lol might be challenging but i think you’ve got it

[@Chaos-Devil51]

I'd love for this to be a series I already really like the selection of flora fauna and theme.

[@DuckLord12]

I would like to say that I love ducks so this is an amazing gift, thank you.

[@wildskelly]

this has potental imma keep a close eye on how this develops in the future

[@nadri3335]

Nice spec bio, I liked it, keep this cuality :D

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

It’s like a giant local terrarium, I’m obsessed!

[@bowenmadden6122]

This was really interesting!! Ironically I find it very useful to my current worldbuilding project, which is largely salty ocean or ice caps, not a lot of freshwater. But aquatic ecosystems in general are really cool, and I'm hoping to make this planet evoke the feeling of a little oasis-like pond in the greater universe! :) As for future suggestions...what if you started with an isolated cave ecosystem, then populated a planet whose surface had been wiped-out? I'm especially curious to know how you might use troglobites from deeper cave ecosystems, where light is absent, food is scarce, and spaces are often very narrow, but weather & temperatures are extremely stable.

[@CiaranEldrett-vp8yz]

Awesome video maybes in the giga ponds you could have the carnivorous plants bladderworts and waterwheels act as sessile predators, bladderworts closer to the shallows and the waterwheels adapt to float freely in the outcrops and the open.

[@elmsigreen]

One spec-evo idea I had a long time ago, it was actually a creature I made for a DnD campaign, is the coastal bear. It's basically like a smaller polar bear but it evolved to hunt much further south. They have shorter legs and narrow, hydrodynamic faces and would kinda look like ancestors of the pinnipeds that first ventured into the ocean.

[@raccoon3164]

I love the concept and the speculation you went with. Can see many cool routes in the future. Would a carnivorous rabbit would develop in a rabbit filled environment? I mean there's the Herons so maybe they didn't had time to change that much

[@achim7999]

Really cool concept. Hoping to see more of it

[@nickname83532]

What if you do a spec evo project on mudskippers? Like think about it Mudskippers are already pretty similar to ancient amphibians that crawled up on land. And even have a few other ideas like Caterpillars , taking the niches of maggots or larvae. And stuff like small bushes, taking the niches of trees. I would love to give more details if this comment ever gets picked up

[@dinoseen3226]

good stuff, can't wait to see more from you - regarding the request for ideas at the end, how about a flat planet? You kinda have to just say the structural integrity of it is magic, but if you otherwise treat gravity and all the rest realistically you get some really interesting results. Gravity would point towards the center, so as you travelled outwards from it the terrain would feel steeper, approaching a sheer cliff as you get to the "rim". Not only that, but water and even air would pool near the center of gravity, allowing an intrepid explorer to potentially walk into the vacuum of space! I think the life adapted to such a place could be very interesting. Another idea is a toroidal world and it's variable-depending-on-latitude gravity. Yet another one, because I can't help myself: a seedworld with the bare minimum ecology necessary to support human life, put mentally animalistic humans on it and see all the creepy ass lifeforms that evolve from them.

[@UnwantedGhost1-anz25]

This type of content is stupendous. Have you thought of doing a planet ruled by dogs or cats?

[@godoffire420yearsago]

With all the shallow water, I think mangroves, or any such plants that can germinate underwater will cover the entire planets surface water (except for the giga ponds), leaving very little sunlight for all that inhabit the ponds. This environmental factor can have significant selection pressures on both flora and fauna. Maybe it makes animals darker to better blend. Hope this gets touched on in the future.

[@hondaaccord1399]

Awaiting episode, like, three where the ponds dry up and it becomes a Mad Max world 👀

[@oscarsvensson8496]

Gigantica. A planet where it’s only been seeded by the biggest animals and plants of earth. I like the idea of seeing some giants get small and some get even bigger

[@megazillasaurus]

Are there any lizards on the planet? Also i have an idea for a planet where velvet worms are on all continents and only 1 isolated continent has tetrapods, the only tetrapods on the continent are tuataras and crested geckos. Guppies are the only other chordate and are found everywhere except the polar regions. Mealworm beetles, fruitflies, springtails, bristletails, and cockroaches are the only insects there. And there are no arachnids or myriapods on the planet. And all classes of molluscs are there, but bivalves will have the most species, having 50 species introduced to the planet.

[@lorcanmcloughlin3686]

I'm happy that speculative evolution is becoming more common

[@joshuafernandes6684]

I really like it! I would love to see a world seeded only with invertebrates. Also, put some neoteny in this project: Neotenic dragonflys that stay in their larval stage forever and frogs that retain their tails to help swiming would be cool!

[@ryanchamberlain4125]

After reading up on Serina, I've thought of scenarios like this were a pond or park was seeded on another world. The difference was that I'd include large trees like oak, replace the rabbit with squirrels, and add geese and hawks instead of herons. I look forward to seeing where this goes :)