First, there was a World ruled by Birds and now, a World ruled by Frogs? What's next? Cats? Snakes? Elephants? The possibilities are truly *endless* in Speculative Evolution.

@Ahahashir

2 жыл бұрын

Elephants would be very interesting!

@darkkothor

2 жыл бұрын

I want elephants, squids and rats

@ender3154

2 жыл бұрын

@@darkkothor Squids would be awesome!

@aldgate

2 жыл бұрын

earth ruled by micro-organisms

@TheSlamburger

2 жыл бұрын

Snakes would be cool.

Eon toad is not actually too unique in freezing its body to hybernate. There are some species of frogs that can and often do just that.

@snupblupkins8493

2 жыл бұрын

Might be a bit farfetched but that may have been the inspiration

@Manie230

2 жыл бұрын

@@snupblupkins8493 truly a very farfetched assumption (sarcasm)

@Beanpolr

2 жыл бұрын

@@snupblupkins8493 How is it farfetched if that actually happens lmao

@snupblupkins8493

2 жыл бұрын

Do I need to add a little (SARCASM) indicator on my comment? Kids these days have no reading compression I swear

@snupblupkins8493

2 жыл бұрын

@@Manie230 kiddo my comment was also sarcasm but i guess you didn't understand because i didn't say (SARCASM) like an idiot

An animal evolving a foam-like cover instead of fur is such an interesting and original concept, goddamn. Now imagine if those foam glands slowly made the foam more firm. Over millions of years, the glands adapt. Eventually the foam glands evolve into something similar to hair follicles that produce very soft bulbs of keratin. We now have frog sheep made of cloud bubbles. This sounds like such an adorable fairy tale but also oddly possible in real life

@grass-touched

Жыл бұрын

Bubble frog sheep wool foam Sounds like a great mattress fluff

@seigeengine

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it seems plausible the foam could develop into a semi-permanent structure. Sort of like organic expanding foam.

@kongzillatoho4558

Жыл бұрын

''adorable'' Why are you people ALWAYS like this? whats with this obsession with making everything cute and gay?

@bendover9813

Жыл бұрын

It could evolve from them eating calcium in a similar way to ungulates today, creating a semi-permanent structure exactly like hair, hardening in a way similar to expanding fire-stop construction foam.

@hermanmunster1054

7 ай бұрын

It isn't. They would die every time it was knocked off. Which would be VERY easy to do.

If Amphibia was already creative with it's world, imagine if it had a pinch of this

@paperluigi0323

2 ай бұрын

Imagine how fascinating will be.

I’m sorry. But I laughed every time you said “greater moist boy.” Every time. This was another great speculative world! And I liked that it was an alternate history of our own planet. The last few videos have taken us to some truly insane alien worlds, which I have LOVED, but it always feels nice to come back home and speculate about our own pale blue dot, and all the ways it could have turned out differently. I love your channel so much.

@chadgorosaurus4898

2 жыл бұрын

It's by far the most powerful creature in this video

@PatataChip_Alt

2 жыл бұрын

*greater moisty boi*

@thegamingpuppet8381

2 жыл бұрын

He is great He is moist And of course He is a *boi*

@PatataChip_Alt

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegamingpuppet8381 *he is the greatest moisty boi*

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

Amphiterra was originally going to be called Moistworld but my thesis advisors talked me out of it

I must say that something like this is beyond my own imagination ❤

@gshaindrich

2 жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for you... seriously. The author did put very little effort into this. Absolutely no mention of the tadpoles!

@devonodonnell715

2 жыл бұрын

You do realise how long it takes to draw stuff like that, even digitally that still takes hours. I’d like to see you try “Gsh”, maybe put some effort into your KZread name.

@PuggleStudiosOG

2 жыл бұрын

@@gshaindrich you have put so many hate comments on these videos, is that all you do with your time

@PuggleStudiosOG

2 жыл бұрын

@@gshaindrich also you say there’s no mention of tadpoles, what’s this 4:27

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

@@gshaindrich Hi, I'm the creator of Amphiterra. I'd like to say I put a lot of effort into this, but I do agree that the lack of tadpoles is an issue. I actually did have some thoughts of them - point is, I had to make all of Amphiterra in about a year. I haven't had the time since to continue it, but if I do, I really value your feedback! 🐸

Literally Amphibia. I adore these alternative biology worlds

I really like the freeple design. I’m definitely basing a spore creature on that

@BigHugeFrog

2 жыл бұрын

If you ever do, please tag or link me, I'm adding a fanart section to the site!

This was absolutely ribbiting. The last entry was the most interesting, considering they had grooming and the ability to make unique looks from said grooming. Kind of gross, since that's basically a coat of frog boogers, but it's still very unique.

@zefellowbud5970

2 жыл бұрын

Damn you i couldnt stop smilling when i read “ribbiting”

@michaelfixedsys7463

2 жыл бұрын

Is it really any grosser than hair?

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words! I love the Trogglefolk too - not just because they're easier to draw.

@sonorasgirl

2 жыл бұрын

Coat of frog boogers 😂🤢😂

@Dubs22005

2 жыл бұрын

ship the splendid and catasrophic fraggon

i had the incredible luck of being roxy's classmate in university, and coworker through some crazy jobs :) she is one of the best artists i have ever met, and a truly top notch person and friend

@concept5631

Жыл бұрын

It sure is.

i love how this video summonsed half of the Amphibia fandom

@NikodemBogusz-wj4yr

Ай бұрын

We love frogs

Biologically accurate Amphibia

@This_birb_is_annoying...

5 ай бұрын

Yes

@cinthiarosasromero5239

Ай бұрын

Yis

@LorcanCody-ez6do

Ай бұрын

Yes

@Pot-pigu

5 күн бұрын

ya can't fully comprehend what it would look like when Annes parents met biblically accurate Polly, Sprig, and the old one

What about a world ruled by mammals? It’s kind of out there I know but I think it would be cool

@doctordong8088

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, you might be onto something....

@dextra9753

2 жыл бұрын

idk, seems kinda unrealistic :/

@FungusFantastic

2 жыл бұрын

@@dextra9753 yeah a world ruled by mammals would be totally different then our life’s you know

@not_a_german_weeb_spy7078

2 жыл бұрын

idk man mammals are kinda stupid 99% chance they just end up blowing up the world

@Justanothaguy

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know dude, is that possible? ;\

I'm an aspiring game designer and artist, and I am obsessed with paleo-entomology, and I'm gonna be doing a speculative biology project called Cancer 14; the World of Crabs

@homymouly2562

2 жыл бұрын

reject to humanity,, evolve to crab

@nilsdohrmann4493

2 жыл бұрын

Cool :D Are you planning on publishing your work somewhere?

@quempire2656

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit it exists

@detroitbecomesurvivaltrain7813

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe swap the name :) Unless whoosh

@ghostspartan0182

2 жыл бұрын

@@detroitbecomesurvivaltrain7813 I think its because cancer is the crab constellation

Would be cool to see crossover fan art of this and Amphibia. : )

@cescimes

Жыл бұрын

yes!!!

@GlowingAmberRaiinYTT

10 ай бұрын

I’m on it, I’m an artist and I love Amphibia.

@Remington-bs6xh

4 ай бұрын

This could possibly be prehistoric amphibia

I was so excited when I first found this youtube channel because I literally never found a channel that liked speculative biology and the same genres of horror like I do. Instantly one of my favorite channels ever. (it's also the first time I found a community for those kinds of things and I never knew so many other people liked it)

You could almost say speculative evolution and projects like this are alternate realities of our own world.

@mnrvaprjct

2 жыл бұрын

“what if chordates never evolved like we did on earth “ basically

@sivanlevi3867

2 жыл бұрын

There's always a reason why something evolved the way it did, plus life's mere existence on Earth could be viewed as an accident or chance event, or as many scientists might say, "a cosmic rarity."

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860

2 жыл бұрын

@@sivanlevi3867 or orgainc matter could have possibly be an abandoned creation from cosmic entities like that's just another scenario that matches with the others

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860

2 жыл бұрын

@@mnrvaprjct true

@sivanlevi3867

2 жыл бұрын

Quite possible, strange but possible

I was not prepared for "greater moistboi"

@anonymouspersonthefake

2 жыл бұрын

greater moistboi

@BigHugeFrog

2 жыл бұрын

People rarely are, and that's by design

Now I find myself In the wild unknown With the frogs and toads And I'm far from home But there's so much here to discover One leap after another Hop into the adventure Gotta ribbit, ribbit Jump on in it Welcome to Amphibia Life don't get much crazier When you're a normal girl Living in another world What you gonna do? You gotta ribbit, ribbit Jump on in it Welcome to Amphibia Life don't get much crazier So ribbit, ribbit live it in Amphibia

Live action Amphibia lookin fire 🔥

@Remington-bs6xh

4 ай бұрын

Live adaption when!?!?!?

@This_birb_is_annoying...

Ай бұрын

It's coming today

The speculative world ruled by decapods such as crabs, lobsters, hermit crabs and shrimp seems interesting considering how diverse they are

@alexsysoev7774

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be the same as a world ruled by insects?

@bhermit5759

2 жыл бұрын

Crabs are definitely cooler

@salteeth

2 жыл бұрын

Not much would happen. Crabs are the peak of evolution

Hmm, interesting! It does make me wonder though, since these early frogs outcompeted the Synapsids and Archosaurs (thereby stopping the rise of Mammals, Birds, and Crocodilians-- all of which are major predators towards the frogs of our timeline), surely there'd still be some reptiles still present in Amphiterra? Squamates (Lizards and Snakes) could easily inhabit the dryer reaches of Amphiterra, serving as both prey and predators to the also present (arguably more Toads than) Frogs? Not to mention, Frogs aren't the only amphibians out there that would likely thrive in this alternate world; Salamanders, Newts, and Caecilians could also have some place (The Caecilians in particular could serve as a niche-replacement for our Real World snakes!)

@SongbirdOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

I think this project is mostly just for fun, not that serious, but those are some interesting ideas!

@bijtmntongaf

2 жыл бұрын

this project isnt even close to spec lol, theres very little biology and its mostly designs for the sake of designs

@alexx.476

2 жыл бұрын

canonically, there are mammals, but they're nearly extinct by the present. Roxy wants to update the site one day, and giant ocean salamanders are part of the plan!

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexx.476 Yep, that's true!! I'm hoping to feature some of them soon on my Patreon, and hopefully release to the public later.

@brendanrichter1569

2 жыл бұрын

Toads are frogs

In other words...an adult version of "Amphibia".

@Remington-bs6xh

4 ай бұрын

Yes, and thankfully, no random children 👍

I absolutely love all of the archives you've done, but this one will forever hold a special place in my heart. This planet makes me so irrationally happy.

"Moist Boi"? "Frogette"? I swear, if the pinnacle of evolution of this world is called the "Pepe" I'm out.

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to be honest with you. I'm simply not very good at naming things.

@Archgeek0

2 жыл бұрын

@@roxyvaldez4190 Ignore these creatures. "Greater Moist Boi" is best of all possible names.

@bugjams

2 жыл бұрын

You must be boring as fuck at parties. I'm not even going with the sarcastic "you must be fun" line, I'm just gonna be blunt.

@bugjams

2 жыл бұрын

You must be boring as fuck at parties. I'm not even going with the sarcastic "you must be fun" line, I'm just gonna be blunt.

@horizonhunter2247

2 жыл бұрын

Amphibia

It would be really interesting interesting to see a world dominated by ants next. What if we terraformed a planet Epic of Serina style, but instead of dropping off birds on it we put Argentine or Leafcutter ants?

@AAZ-yu5ss

2 жыл бұрын

@Mullerornis Throughout most of Serina’s history, they’ve always been running the show in the background, from swarming and devouring all in their path, or maintaining the plants and trees that other animals eat or rest on.

@miquelescribanoivars5049

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn't know...

@approximateCognition

2 жыл бұрын

(*increasingly loud clicking noises in the background*)

@monkewithinternetaccess6107

2 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see one about different farm animals. I imagine a super advanced future human civilization builds this planet filled with cows chickens, sheep and other animals. Most likely for the purpose of mass-producing meat, wool and eggs. But the humans lose control of this farm planet, and the animals are left to their own devices.

@junoniathesilkwing4221

2 жыл бұрын

The sea shoggoth has entered the chat.

14:44 that little dude with the horns right there thats me

I love series like this! I think it should be "if frogs" took over, not "amphibians", unless they're going to add newts, salamanders, cecaelia, etc. I was hoping for some other types of amphibian-based life!

@BigHugeFrog

2 жыл бұрын

I wanted to add the Urodelan lineage originally, but it was cut for time. Hopefully in the future!!

@shgds

5 ай бұрын

​@@BigHugeFroghello Roxy Valdez from Amphiterra.

@BigHugeFrog

5 ай бұрын

@@shgds Hi there!

Can you imagine a speculative evolution based on different animals like cows? Although rather docile and herbivorous, evolution would eventually lead to speciation and we would eventually have a whole food chain, including predators. Imagine carnivorous cows.

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860

2 жыл бұрын

Cows elephant deer and other herbivores can eat meat too

@tonoornottono

2 жыл бұрын

cows are opportunistic omnivores. they don’t eat animals only because they’re fat and slow

@angelahughes7049

2 жыл бұрын

have you been around normal cows 😳 there is no difference

@de-zo6ex

2 жыл бұрын

What about snakes , they can fly ,swim and crawl in real life , what they could do if have chance? they could evolve legs?

@pendragon0905

2 жыл бұрын

Minotaurs: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

Has there ever been any speculative evolution of the octopus? I would very much like to see that! Since there have already been xenobiologists who have described the rise of octopus since they have massive amounts of neurons (e.g. throughout the animal, including each leg, which has the ability to feel, taste and smell) it is known that they have a great degree of intelligence from using that different type of "brain." They already have their own video channels such as 'Octolab' etc, but I remember someone showing drawings of octos swinging through trees. I'd dearly love to see these creatures advance thru the eons!

@PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy

2 жыл бұрын

The Future Is Wild dipped into cephalopod intelligence in its final episode if you’re interested

@koriw1701

2 жыл бұрын

@@PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy thanks, actually, I have seen that. I think that's where I saw the jungle scene with the octos before, though I can't be sure. Regardless, it was years ago and I was hoping for a new treatment to the old concept.

@ylvavarynkottir2265

2 жыл бұрын

This is late, but "Children of Ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky is exactly this concept. It heavily dives into the language and logistics behind an Octopod society. It's one of my favorite books and I highly recommend it

@salteeth

2 жыл бұрын

It's called Splatoon

@koriw1701

2 жыл бұрын

@@ylvavarynkottir2265 thank you! That's exactly what I needed to hear!

I love the Trogglefolk. Adorable little yeti frogs!!!

The closest we'll ever get to real life Amphibia

We already know of what would happen if amphibians were the dominant species... Amphibia. XD

@mr.mystery9940

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Amphibia

@miquelescribanoivars5049

2 жыл бұрын

TBF given the kaiju sized predatory fauna, the titular amphibian domination is rather tenuous.

@j-core2895

2 жыл бұрын

@@miquelescribanoivars5049 I think there is more oxygen on amphibia than earth so mammals and insects were able to grow extremely large

@brawmankerlexterminateurde860

2 жыл бұрын

It's good to see that cartoon being mentioned and the incursean from ben 10 are also welcomed too

@angelsartandgaming

2 жыл бұрын

Funny enough, I read the title as "Amphibia Explained" at first!

A serina with frogs, now that's what I've been looking for

@xavierchaves7090

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@KhanMann66

2 жыл бұрын

Serina was more diverse. This speculation world looks too boring with the same body plan.

This is just realistic amphibia

@Blue_Fire-Chibi

Жыл бұрын

Just want I was thinking!

@miguelmartins5968

Жыл бұрын

@@Blue_Fire-Chibi Same

@miguelmartins5968

Жыл бұрын

Psychologist: the realistic Hop Pop can't hurt you ins't real The realistic Hop Pop 10:44

*Amphibia theme starts playing.

One thing about the inhabitated lodge: given its a desert animal (I think) it would make more sense if its tadpoles inhabit its back. A protected reservoir seems tl be good for tadpoles in a water poor enviroment. And given how beecomb frogs already carry their eggs/tadpoles in Chambers of there belly, this would feel like a nice nod to this real animal. In addition this could be a way to get "mammalian" or "placentalian" amphibians of sorts, if it would continue to evolve along this line

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

You nailed it actually! I have working doc about their reproduction and you've predicted it perfectly.

@hangebza6625

2 жыл бұрын

@@roxyvaldez4190 ah very awesome :D. Would be cool to see the eventual results.

@asheed

2 жыл бұрын

@@roxyvaldez4190 hi

@froginabucket7294

Жыл бұрын

​@@roxyvaldez4190 holy shit it's the frog person

5:55: "shockingly digests most of their brains upon reaching adulthood." Would explain a lot about our current timeline. . . (also, great video)

@teslashark

2 жыл бұрын

They all pepe

@handleisntfkinavailable

2 жыл бұрын

pepe

@Dubs22005

2 жыл бұрын

ship the splendid and catasrophic fraggon

I know a lot of Amphibia fans will mention Amphibia, but this novel technically came first, so I guess you could say that Amphiterra is Amphibia 0.5. This could technically work as a prequel for Amphibia as well.

I LOVE THIS, I LOVE THE NAMES, I LOVE THE WHOLE IDEA OF IT, THIS IS AMAZING

@BigHugeFrog

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

I love speculative biology, but this project has one problem as I see it. The idea is presented that these amphibians wouldn't transition to forms of exothermic metabolism. We have evidence that both crocodilians and dinosaurs could change from warm-blooded to cold-blooded and back again. Birds, being warm-blooded reptiles, show the transition from ectothermic to exothermic lifestyles. Why wouldn't amphibians do the same over the eons in one shape or another?

@graphite2786

2 жыл бұрын

This Spec World has more holes in it than a hairnet but I think it's fantastic! With Spec Worlds there is a balance of trying to keep the characteristics of the progenitor species into the resultant lifeforms. So sometimes logic has to be bypassed for creativity. For example the foamy frog boys is amusingly good but to get that species from Earth's timeline takes a lot of evolutionary manipulation and a chunk of artistic licence. Logically, as soon as an endothermic species evolves, the potential for it to become dominant increases after sudden major environmental change. Archosaurs after the Permian event, Mammals and birds after K-T event. So while it's pretty unlikely that frog world would exist ( maybe on a planet with no chance of asteroid impact, powerful geomagnetic field, uniform crust with no weak spots for cataclysmic volcanism) , it's fun to see froggo world speculation 🤠 (BTW , ectotherms and exotherms are the same unless I'm missing something in your comment. Endotherms are "warm blooded" 😉

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

@@graphite2786 i couldn't agree more! Hopefully one day I can go back patch some of it. I consider the current state of the project 1.0, and want to make 2.0 some day.

@graphite2786

2 жыл бұрын

@@roxyvaldez4190 well i love it, a great use of imagination and creativity. Your illustrations are beautiful. Keeping it on Earth does limit your scope though, froggos will be competing with lots of other organisms that may out evolve them ( arthropods for example) Maybe for planet frog2 , some sort of Panspermia scenario? A delivery of frozen frog spawn goes awry and lands on a forgotten half terraformed planet that humans abandoned because of the humidity ( or something). Froggonauts take over and Planet Croak is born!

@____________838

2 жыл бұрын

It’s surprising that you didn’t appear to have any of the amphibians stay in larval form and “become fish”.

@ckl9390

2 жыл бұрын

@@____________838 Maybe because in this timeline the branching incident wouldn't have affected the majority of existing marine life at that time, so all those niches would have already been filled.

Awesome video! I didn't even know this project existed, but I can't wait to see more of it!

@CuriousArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@chadgorosaurus4898

2 жыл бұрын

@@CuriousArchive greater moist boy supremacy

@jackbeynon8980

2 жыл бұрын

@@chadgorosaurus4898 yes.

Imagine Amphibia but it is set in this world

@Remington-bs6xh

4 ай бұрын

Imagine this is what prehistoric amphibia possibly looked like

Ty for the patreon link. Not every creator would credit to that extent and it’s appreciated

Since you covered a world of Birds and a world of Frogs, do you thin you could cover a world of Hamsters? it's called Hamster's Paradise, by Tribbetherium. it's a project directly inspired by Serina, but with Hamsters as the seed organism evolving on a planet with two suns

@astranix0198

2 жыл бұрын

In the world of Hamster's Paradise, there's always a choir echoing in the atmosphere

@rajavlitra

2 жыл бұрын

Been spending most our lives

@kevinlevin992

2 жыл бұрын

@@rajavlitraliving in a hamster's paradise 🎶

Is anyone gonna talk about how he said, “Leap back.” At 0:57! I was hopping someone else noticed that.

Once I get started watching your videos I just cant stop!!! Such amazing work💕 and great work to roxy as well for this ingenious world!

give this man a bigger budget!!! we need an hour long documentary like this in hour lives

Amphibia S3 took a radical turn apparently

There were several things that were not taken into account when evolving over time. They stuck way too closely to frog morphology and tried to hammer-fit it into each of the niches. Amphibians have varied morphology now that were advantageous for land dwelling amphibians but were not mentioned. Amphibians that become completely terrestrial without need for water as part of their life cycle no longer meet the definition of "amphibian". Every evolved amphibian retained frog eyes and body structure. Evolution is also influenced by things never mentioned as well. Predator prey relationships drive evolution. Fast running prey animals and predictors are an example. Size also dictates evolution due to environmental factors. Amphibians respiratory system is a limiting factor as many don't have lungs and breathe by uptake of oxygen through the skin or primitive lungs. This limits size. The larger the animal the more oxygen is needed. That's why lungs evolved. This would also change mouth and nose shape.

@alcole-holic8779

2 жыл бұрын

Technically there are species of toads that live almost entirely without a pool of water, except for in their tadpole forms, which the video mentioned they still have. So as long as they have an aquatic tadpole state, they’re amphibious. You made a lot of true points, but nature’s ability to branch out is almost entirely limitless.

@coffeeconfirmed3609

Жыл бұрын

Cool man, so then wheres your video of frog world? Nothing? Then shhh.

@datmedetbek5165

11 ай бұрын

@@coffeeconfirmed3609 You aren't an intelligent specimen, are you?

This is sooo so so wonderful!!! i really adored the Trogglefolk! customizable foam.... lovely!!

@anglure3617

2 жыл бұрын

yeah isn't it great :o)

@AphidKirby

2 жыл бұрын

@@anglure3617 omg hiii! you have spotted me in the wild

THIS IS AWESOME DUDE LOVE IT!

This is one of the greatest spec evolution projects I've ever seen, solely because I love frogs so much 🐸

New season of Amphibia is looking great!

I really hope they continue this project. I want to see so many more creatures come from this

@BigHugeFrog

2 жыл бұрын

I am continuing it! I'll be featuring more Amphiterra material on my Patreon, leading to a public Season 2 release

@bradybales7067

2 жыл бұрын

@@BigHugeFrog awesome :)

I absolutely love the names of these creatures. This is awesome.

what about a world ruled by spiders? it would be cool to see the many shapes and forms they take to adapt such a world where they're the dominate animal group

@reality6951

2 жыл бұрын

Sir, absolutely not

@hexagon9393

2 жыл бұрын

Read "Children of Time" for spider planet

@G-LukeJA

2 жыл бұрын

No fuck no stop STOPPPPP

@unikeko96

2 жыл бұрын

😱

@clawyraptor9029

2 жыл бұрын

I hope that world gets wiped out by an asteroid

Speculative science is just scientist going nut's on their inteligence and imagination, love it.

Finally, a calmer, cuter more tame version of All Tomorrows that the kids will love.

Amphibia, but it's not quite.

I love these what if speculative documentaries! I love the ideas of what if some animals were the dominant species. Friggin love the Moist Bois and the Freeple. My favorite idea is a cephalopod world. In the game Splatoon, the lore is people died to a massive war and sea life took hold. It's kinda hinted their evolution was rapid due to either radiation, science gone wrong, or the lack of mammalian predators. So I wonder what a squid or octo world would be like. Would both evolve simultaneously like the Inklings and Octolings did? Would civilization rise again? I dunno, I wonder what a realistic Splatoon world would be where sealife, specifically invertebrates, evolved.

@chicocorry1311

2 жыл бұрын

Cool! One of the things that annoys me a little is that when people make octopus people/animals, they often forget that the mass of flesh that is their body is their abdomen. So I would like to see someone using this logic

@ckl9390

2 жыл бұрын

We are already living in a cephalopod dominated world. They're just letting everything else exist because it amuses them.

I love all of these vids, but the art in this was was LOVELY. The idea is fun and interesting, the art is gorgeous, and our tour guide is informative and engaging - what more could I ask for?

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

That's really nice of you to say, thank you!

@whatdahelltwin

2 жыл бұрын

@@roxyvaldez4190is the story a alone project or a group project

Just watched this video now and am loving it

They made Amphibia

I was just watching videos on the early amphibians, this came out at a perfect time.

I think one beautiful thing of speculative evolution is that, if you put effort and imagination, anything is possible, any species can be material for something interesting

I love the way the froggos are displayed. Alone in their environment or displayed in a portrait of sorts as the splendid fragon near the end. Might use this for my project later, a lot less anatomically correct stuff there lol

Loved this, thanks so much

On one hand I'm sad the Freeple are gone. But the Trogglefolk sure are cute.

This is my favorite channel on youtube. The combination of soothing narration along with immersive visuals and overarching story narrative really takes these videos to another level. Thank you sir.

I need a serious speculative biology book on the world of slugterra, that would go so crazy

very cool. Props to Roxy Valdez

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm honored to have been featured.

There's an unfinished Worldbuilding project I made a while back, it's similar to Serina, but instead of canaries, it's inhabited by Naked molerats, with corvids being introduced years later.

@quempire2656

2 жыл бұрын

Do the mole Rats stay blind?

@theblorg2637

2 жыл бұрын

where tho would love to check it out

@GhazMazMSM

2 жыл бұрын

@@quempire2656 one group of them stays blind, but most regain their sight.

@GhazMazMSM

2 жыл бұрын

@@theblorg2637 I never posted them, unfortunately. But I might revisit it someday.

@skitsfossil16

2 жыл бұрын

@@GhazMazMSM it would be pretty cool to consider. I hope you do revisit it!

*yessir another amazing speculative biology video by one of my favourite KZreadrs*

I love this amphibia prequell

I had an intense emotional reaction to each and everyone of these frogs

I love all the different spec evo projects you find! Such amazing variety with all of these creatures, you do a great job getting these ideas to a wider audience. Love it when you cover creatures from media like Star Wars and Dune too

I lost it at Greater Moist Boi 😂

*Greater Moist Boy* is the hero we need, but not the hero we deserve. I got a good chuckle out of that. Great video!

Interesting, though I'd certainly like to know how she solved the problem of amphibian reproduction in her book. In our world, the amphibious ancestors of reptiles evolved the *Amniote Egg,* allowing for them to roam far from bodies of water previously necessary for reproduction. The *Amniote Egg* further led to the evolution of the dinosaurs, birds, & (eventually) the *Placental Mammals* - so it's a pretty significant deal. That said, looking in the fossil record, there were some truly remarkable relatives of modern *Amphibians* filling an astonishing variety of ecological niches. One major branch of their evolutionary tree was the *Temnospondyls,* including: ~ The tiny, forest dwelling & sail-backed *Platyhystrix* (which may have used it's sail to warm itself from the sun), ~ The huge (6-8 meter long) pseudo-crocodilian *Prionosuchus* (having long narrow skulls & conical teeth, that were perfectly adapted for piscivoration - much like modern *Gharials),* ~ The terrifyingly massive (3 meters long, weighing 500kg), wide-mouthed (needle teeth even across the palates of their mouths) salamander-like *Koolasuchus* (which may have hibernated in burrows during the long *post-Gonwana Australian* winters) & even ~ The bizarrely boomerang-skulled ambush predator *Diplocaulus* (which perhaps had both external gills & a hunting strategy similar to the modern *Wobbegong* shark). Real *Life* can be just as weird, just as amazing, as any *Speculative Biology Project!*

They've created a scientifically accurate Amphibia

This is just serina with frogs AND I LOVE IT!

I love frogs and spec Evo so this was a must watch

Well this an interesting to watch before the year ends

Thank you for bringing light to some of these interesting projects that I didn't know about, amazing video yet again!

I really hope this gets a part 2

Thise channel is really a great way to look for fantasy/sci-fi story ideas lmak

That Inhabited Lorge is giving me some Princess Mononoke Demon Boar vibes. And omg I love the names!

Another CA speculative biology video, this has made my Friday! Work will now be bare able for the next 15mins

No other amphibians? I think we have more salamander-like fossils then frog fossils.

@luckystar9279

2 жыл бұрын

So? The creator clearly wants to focus on frogs.

@BigHugeFrog

2 жыл бұрын

I had to cut the amount of species I wanted to feature by about half for time. Unfortunately the salamanders got the axe... For now!!

So much fun to learn about frogworld

Awesome. Speculate more frogs and Water Apes also very cool.

Awesome! Your videos are always very interesting!

I’m waiting for all the Amphibia fans to show up in the comments. (Though, I’m already here, I suppose.)

You should do a phylogeny of how these lineages developed. You can add key adaptations like endothermy and see how that propagated

Season 4 of Amphibia looks lit

Not a criticism of Roxy's very cool and intriguing work here, but it's interesting to me that the Lissamphibia ("modern" amphibians) went straight to the frog body plan as default for the beginning of their radiation with zero salamander-like (or even caecilian if you wanna throw them in) body types in niches, despite their body plans being closer to their stem body layout than the more derived frog traits. Probably because frogs are subjectively cooler for this project to most of us (myself included 😅).

@roxyvaldez4190

2 жыл бұрын

I wanted to do a salamander lineage! But it got cut for time. They would have conquered the seas! I hope one day i can add them.

@itsahostiletakeover

2 жыл бұрын

@@roxyvaldez4190 That's awesome, they could definitely fill some niches there! Thanks for the info straight from the source, I obviously still enjoyed your speculation Roxy 👏😁

That got me curious what would a planet ruled by only invertebrates look like? For example imagine if the events that ended the rain of giant arthropods in the past never happened. We could have stuff like giant aquatic sentapeads or huge weevils and other beetle species grazing on vegetation. And dragon flies and wasps evolving to be the equivalent of birds of prey in our timeline.

@jonathanschaffer2594

2 жыл бұрын

Omg I highly recommend you check out Children of Time. It’s a sci-fi book where one of the concepts is if a species of spiders developed human-like intelligence and a civilization.

@sonorasgirl

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanschaffer2594 ooooh I’m gonna look into this 😁

@ijustlikebees

2 жыл бұрын

Cool...

Oh! I think I saw this project in the MFA area of my school several years ago! Neat to find a graduate out in the "wild"

The foaming squander is my favorite ❄