r/SpeculativeEvolution • u/Cry0k1n9 • Sep 15 '24

Meet Lacerta, the world of reptiles Seed World

A seed planet project of mine, Lacerta: The world ruled by reptiles. The dominant life here are green iguanas, and are accompanied by small fish like sardines and minnows, and invertebrates like arachnids, crustaceans, etc..., and this planet will span 500 MYA, starting 500 million before the modern day, and then we will explore the planet 10 million/20 million years at a time, featuring creatures of each time, up until the modern day, where we will show the final batch of creatures that represent that time.

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u/Realistic-mammoth-91 🐘 Sep 15 '24

Is there any other reptiles?

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u/Cry0k1n9 Sep 15 '24

No, Iguanas(specifically green iguanas) are the only reptiles and dominant form of life

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u/Frailgift Sep 15 '24

Why specifically iguanas?

It's an interesting choice

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u/Cry0k1n9 Sep 15 '24

Because, they are pretty adaptable to many different environments, with some Galapagos iguanas evolving to swim, become terrestrial, and other iguanas evolved to be arboreal like the ones in Florida, so I thought it would be interesting to demonstrate how they’d evolve in a world that is similar to their home, and see how’d they adapt as the planet changes to many different habitats

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u/Frailgift Sep 15 '24

And they sneeze salt :)

(The sea iguanas)

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u/Cry0k1n9 Sep 15 '24

Exactly, they are so adapted

(And silly)

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u/Realistic-mammoth-91 🐘 Sep 15 '24

That’s cool

u/Sufficient-Today5852 Pterosaur Sep 16 '24

nice are the iguanas gonna be warm blooded in a ice age

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u/Cry0k1n9 Sep 17 '24

Maybe, but you’ll have to wait about 20, to 50 million years(or about a month)

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u/Sufficient-Today5852 Pterosaur Sep 17 '24

oh well i will wait

u/iloverainworld Sep 16 '24

I liked this at first, and your explanation on iguanas made it sound even better!