The Pond Planet - A Spec Evolution Project

What if we took a basic pond and blew up its scale to a planet? This project aims to unpack how the life around a quaint body of water can evolve.

Ok so first things first, my mic is horrible. Any time I say a ‘p’ sound it pops like popcorn so I’ll work on that next video. Secondly, I intended to get this out way longer than I did but there were so many complications in the process. Anyway, the video is out. Let me know what you think, I’m happy to hear.

Don’t forget to suggest ideas :)

[OceanWilks]

pondgea for the planet seems like a good name

[BobBob-trwi]

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

[a_Potato_person]

apollo and pond planet are carrying my spec evo needs

[heeheeyup]

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

[absentfish]

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.

[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.

[adamgallyot]

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

[justastaronblox]

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

[Mr-__-Sy]

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

[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

[gandsproductions]

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

[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

[MrPhanda]

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

[WizzyTheWizkid]

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

[diegoogeid]

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

[justadolphin]

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

[PNyka]

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

[randomchannel]

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.

[BigBossMan]

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

[gabrysstryczek]

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