These organisms come from a fictional scenario, in which creatures and plants that are common in aquatic jar ecospheres (such as bladder snails, copepods, hydroids, duckweed and so on) are seeded in a massive jar environment. These organisms evolved in this surreal ecosystem over millions of years producing multiple bizarre descendants.
In this drawing, you can see...
- Diverse of eelworms which are descendants of nematodes
- Carnivorous slime mold that is attracting a swarm of flying insects.
- A water mantis that is camouflaging on the water rod to hunt a water boatman
- Trapeze snails on ropeweed avoiding the evergliders that are cheerfully harassing their smaller relatives
- Sailing paramecia and swimmerleaves which both originate from protists
- A whale-like branchiopod being hunted by piranha copepod frenzy
- A rodentardigrade resting on a lily jelly with an amphibious snakeworm in its mouth.
These organisms in the drawing are from multiple time periods in the Jar. Some creatures originate from former seeding eras while others are descendants of the more late arrived organisms.
These organisms come from a fictional scenario, in which creatures and plants that are common in aquatic jar ecospheres (such as bladder snails, water fleas, moss, amphipods and so on) are seeded in a massive jar environment. These organisms evolved in this surreal ecosystem over millions of years producing multiple bizarre descendants.
In this drawing, you can see...
- A gigantic Whalemite swimming with a few bloodsucker water fleas attatched. The Whalemite originates from common water mites.
- Two Mantaslugs hunting pelagic bivalves. The Mantaslugs are descendants of the bladder snail and the pelagic bivalves are the descendant of pea clams.
- Beavershrimps swimming around the dam built out of algae, moss, and secretion of the shrimps themselves. These social crustaceans build dams to nest their young together.
- The wallside forest attached around the sideway waterfall on the glass walls with couple Dracoflies flying near. These are huge dragonfly descendants that never come down from the air except for breeding period.
- A Quadraken and a Leviathan fighting next to a school of swimming amphipods. The Quadraken is a descendant of the ramshorn snail and the Leviathan is a neotonic descendant of the dragonfly.
These organisms in the drawing are from multiple time periods in the Jar. Some creatures originate from former seeding eras while others are descendants of the more late arrived organisms.
These organisms come from a fictional scenario, in which creatures and plants that are common in aquatic jar ecospheres (such as bladder snails, water fleas, moss, amphipods and so on) are seeded in a massive jar environment. These organisms evolved in this surreal ecosystem over millions of years producing multiple bizarre descendants.
In this drawing, you can see...
- Diverse group of flounderworms and sessile flatworms. Flounderworms are descendants of flatworms that developed a coelom and became more complex. The pharynx still remains as the feeding appendage. Some flounderworms evolved a pharynx that has a shovel tip to dig through dirt, others developed a spear at the end to pierce prey, and couple of them evolved a filter feeding mouth.
Sessile flatworms either filter feed or have a symbiotic relationship with algae. A lot of them function like tunicates on Earth. This group is very diverse and a lot of flatworms individually evolved sessile lifestyle. In the drawing, all the plant-like structures are sessile flatworms. Groups of sessile flatworms are a common scene in the Jar.
- Rocketflies shooting out from the water surface. Rocketflies are descendants of dragonflies that became more neotenic. They use their small wings and jet propulsion to leap out from the water like a flying fish to either escape predators, hunt flying prey, or travel long distances. Behind the rocketflies, there is a lone dracofly.
- Snipers holding onto water reeds. Snipers are another neotenic dragonfly. However, unlike rocketflies, these use their jet propulsion to sharpshoot their prey and stun them. Snipers have keen eyesight and flexible abdomens. Their water jet can also be used against predators.
- A group of Snufflers resting on the shore while opportunistic Dracocarids attempt in raiding. Snuffler means any amphibious/terrestrial molluschordate (gastropods that evolved a skeleton out of their shells). They are very diverse and it is a polyphyletic term. The closest word on Earth to snuffler would be "beast".
Dracocarids are terrestrial shrimp descendants that skip around with four long legs while using the other legs to pin down prey and carry things. Most dracocarids are carnivorous and some of them are pack hunters.
These organisms in the drawing are from multiple time periods in the Jar. Some creatures originate from former seeding eras while others are descendants of the more late arrived organisms.
These organisms come from a fictional scenario, in which creatures and plants that are common in aquatic jar ecospheres (such as ramshorn snails, dwarf amphipods, cherry shrimps, water mites, and so on) are seeded in a massive jar environment. These organisms evolved in this surreal ecosystem over millions of years producing multiple bizarre descendants.
In this drawing, you can see...
- Diversity of the Dracocarids, which are terrestrial shrimps. Most dracocarids use their pincers like jaws and use four legs to skitter around the huge islands and the edgelands. Some of the dracocarids have a morphology that slightly resembles mantids. The biggest species of dracocarid can reach up to a size of a small bear.
- A pack of Skimmer Mantises gathering to eat a drowning dragonfly. Skimmer mantis are descendants of water stick insects which can navigate on top of the water like water striders. They still kept their ancestor's long front legs that resembles those of a real mantis. These social insects are dangerous predators for any organism that falls onto the water surface, even for a dragonfly.
- Diversity of Pseudocephalopods. Pseudocephalopods are mainly divided into two groups: the Snatiluses and the Cuttleslugs. Both originate from ramshorn snails and have four tentacles. The snautilus has an exterior shell while the cuttleslugs internalized it. These two groups of pseudocephalopods show a wide range of diversity.
- A vast bubble web structure made by a group of Waterweavers. Waterweavers are descendants of water mites. Similar to diving bell spiders, these mites construct water bubbles out of silk and mucus. Being social, these mites create huge bubble webs that protects them from drowning and predators. Sometimes, these bubble webs can even support a whole enclosed ecosystem full of simbiotic organisms and accidental passengers as well.
- An Abhorrent being hunted by a Rorschach. Both these organisms are far descendants of freshwater hydras. Abhorrents are radially symmetrical organisms that occupy the niche similar to jellyfish and sea anemones. Rorschachs are biradially symmetrical organisms that are more mobile. They usually resemble starfish or brittle stars on Earth but are more agile and have some terrestrial/amphibious species.
- Antipod hives with many Antipods swimming around. Antipods are eusocial amphipods that build massive hive structures out of mud, vegetation, and secretion under water vines and floating islands. These bizarre crustaceans have multiple polymorphic castes such as simple workers, farmers, soldiers, carriers, and queens. Antipods swim in swarms in search for food and building material to enlarge their colony. Some farm algae, waterborne fungi, and even sessile planarians for food. In these hives, there are dozens of symbiotic species living inside.
These organisms in the drawing are from multiple time periods in the Jar. Some creatures originate from former seeding eras while others are descendants of the more late arrived organisms.
These organisms come from a fictional scenario, in which creatures and plants that are common in aquatic jar ecospheres (such as dragonfly nymphs, fingernail clams, cherry shrimps, rotifers, and so on) are seeded in a massive jar environment. These organisms evolved in this surreal ecosystem over millions of years producing multiple bizarre descendants.
In this drawing, you can see...
- Dracoflies hunting variety of swimmers including descendants of water boatmen, mayfly larvae, and eelworms. The vast waterscape of the Jar allows a huge diversity in aquatic organisms. Insects, crustaceans, annelids, nematodes, flatworms all are part of the wide complicated food web even during this time where the arthropods and gastropods are the most dominant megafauna. Dracoflies, massive descendants of dragonflies that soar over the never ending water surface, feed on this bountiful feast prepared by nature of this world.
- Sessile bivalve reef with Shell fish (nektonic clams) and Slams (crawling clams) around. Small clams like pea clams and fingernail clams were seeded in the Jar and diversified along with snails. Most of these became various sessile filter feeding reef builders, but some incorporated algae in their membranes while others became predatory.
Thanks to the wide open spaces and niches in this world, some of these clams had a chance to evolve into swimming creatures. Shell fish use their ancestral foot as a paddle tail and one of the siphons as a jet propulsion organ, allowing both usual swimming and quick escapes from predators. Other clams became like snails, using their foot to crawl on the sediment and shores.
- Diversity of Macrotifers on both land and underwater. Rotifers were seeded way before insects, crustaceans, snails, and even worms. This gave them time to diversify into a myriad of bizarre fauna. Some of the rotifers grew into relatively massive sizes over millennia eventually becoming macrotifers. Some of these rotifers developed cilia and spikes into membraned fins or supporting legs. Couple macrotifer species became amphibious/terrestrial as well, resembling small bugs. During the early periods in the Jar, it was their heyday.
- A Lobstergator hunting a snuffler that came too close. Lobstergators are descendants of small freshwater shrimps that use their front limbs and pointed rostrums to hunt amphibious/terrestrial organisms like how crocodiles do. They are diverse in shapes and sizes. Some have more developed spear-like rostrums while others have thick crushing claws depending on their main prey being either softer snufflers or hardy crustaceans.
- Glass reefs (diatom colonies) with gastrotrich and tardigrade descendants wandering around. Diatoms-like other algae, protists, and microscopic multicellular organisms-were seeded in the early times of the Jar and had chance to diversify and form huge colonies. Glass reefs are the most popular ones among those. These yellow-green prisms are composed with both alive and dead diatoms. The dead ones loose the pigment and becomes a channel made out of silicate that allows light to enter into the deeper vital regions in the colony. Among these glass castles, diverse macroscopic nektonic gastrotrich and tardigrade descendants swim along.
These organisms in the drawing are from multiple time periods in the Jar. Some creatures originate from former seeding eras while others are descendants of the more late arrived organisms.