03-26-2015, 08:53 AM
Some of you guys have probably heard of the project Furaha: Life on Nu Phoenicis IV. It’s a really nice speculative xenobiology worldbuilding project, with painted artwork and biologically-plausible body plans for the xenos. There’s a blog on Furaha that I recently looked through. It has quite an amount of content not yet published on the main site, along with some helpful information.
A few useful and interesting pages:
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2013/11/...nts-v.html
How the shapes and layering of leaves can be different on worlds with differently-sized suns.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2012/06/...-home.html
The rather unreliable nature of photosynthesis and how leaf colours (don’t) work out.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2013/05/...ish-i.html
Inverting fish. A quite peculiar example of locomotion. I wouldn't have thought this could work. The blog post merely explores how such a design would work, not why or how it would have evolved.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2013/08/...nts-v.html
Why ‘ballonts’ (human-sized gas-sac creatures) won’t work unless possessed of an extremely large size.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2012/05/...hoats.html
The problem (solved) on how to make terrestrial beings have eight or more legs without them bumping into each other while walking or making them in synchronized pairs.
A few useful and interesting pages:
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2013/11/...nts-v.html
How the shapes and layering of leaves can be different on worlds with differently-sized suns.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2012/06/...-home.html
The rather unreliable nature of photosynthesis and how leaf colours (don’t) work out.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2013/05/...ish-i.html
Inverting fish. A quite peculiar example of locomotion. I wouldn't have thought this could work. The blog post merely explores how such a design would work, not why or how it would have evolved.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2013/08/...nts-v.html
Why ‘ballonts’ (human-sized gas-sac creatures) won’t work unless possessed of an extremely large size.
http://planetfuraha.blogspot.ca/2012/05/...hoats.html
The problem (solved) on how to make terrestrial beings have eight or more legs without them bumping into each other while walking or making them in synchronized pairs.