Arthropods of Kaimere
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- On Earth, arthropods such as crustaceans, spiders, and insects constitute as much as eighty percent of all animal species. Their diversity of species, bodyplans, and niches is even greater on Kaimere, given regular harvest coupled with independent clades evolving on the planet.
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Keanan just listing the gazillion beatles of Kaimere while slowly going insane would probably make for a good april fools episode
Haha that would actually be a funny bit
just coming up with the clades could take longer than the firebird episode, not to mention the research. itd be months if not years in advance.
dont do it
I can already hear him weeping mid-episode
The names get increasingly non-sensical until the end of the video where its just white noise
@@TalesofKaimere If you need help with Beetle information I know someone who can help
this video made me say out loud “oh my god, jumping scorpions? this guy is REALLY cooking” and the horrified look my bug hater roomate just gave me LMFAOOOOOO
My favorite episode on Kaimere just cause i'm a bug lover : P
Wish they were appreciated or acknowledge since most people have no idea just how diverse & important Arthropods really are in our planet.
They are very fascinating. I had a ton of fun studying for this episode!
I think a magic colony that increases blood or oxygen efficiency and allows creatures to grow larger over their life time, would be pretty simple. So a basic enlargement spell could be fairly common, and I think it should be extra effective against bugs. 🐜
Oo! I just got back into watching a bunch of your videos and this was a fun surprise going onto UA-cam this morning! :D
Glad you're enjoying!
It's always great when an extra long video about Kaimere comes out. Especially when it's talking about an entire family of animals.
Though I am saddened to hear about the placoderms having gone extinct. Though it does explain why they've been conspicuously absent from previous videos.
Placoderms being extinct is probably the saddest extinction in this series. I wish there was even just one relic species.
Goliath anteater and giant pangolin due is so wholesome for some reason
Also, me personally, I would pay for the beetle genera video... if I had any disposable income.
😔
I mean I’d happily explore beetles but I’m sure not going to be able to cover them all lol
@@TalesofKaimere understandable.
@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster that is why I said understandable when he gave his response.
This episode is just amazing. Everything in it...
The history, the ecosystem evolution, the Arthropods are the corner stone of said history and ecosystems over all these million of years.
The fact that this episode led to an amazing revelation, made my day.
Also, I knew that Kaimere is an amazingly complex world, but this is definitely its biggest charm. To delve this deep in a project shows how it is, undoubtedly, the most amazing speculative evolution seed world. It's an honor for me to see how this project, which at first was a curiosity for me, turned into a hope inducing weekly doses in my harshest of times, evolve this much.
Thank you my friend for making my week.
Please keep up this wonderful world building, as you are, without a doubt, one of the top ten best spec evo authors I know about.
Thank you so much! I'm humbled
@@TalesofKaimere what animals break the rules in evo or behavior or will should in kaimere?
So much variety with arthropods
It was a lot to cover for sure!
Waves after Waves of arthropods from across earth's history + evolution, that's a lot biodiversity
@@happynihilist2573 Yeah there was no way I could do more than scratch the surface in this format lol
On Objecia, arthropods have still been diverse. With many ants, spiders, trilobites, crabs, scorpions, butterflies, and more. Due to Objecia having higher oxygen levels than Earth, some arthropods have grown gigantic like the great blue butterfly, which has a wingspan the size of a toddler. And a sea scorpion the size of a minke whale.
I love the uncertainty you put in some details. The mysteries were well placed and felt real
Thank you! The more I dive into the details of the sciences that inspire Kaimere, the more I find uncertainty. Experts are often cautious with absolute statements and I like incorporating that sense of ambiguity.
I’m delighted to see you cover this topic. I’ve been wondering how bizzare Kaimeran insects could get for a while 😁
Some of these I found especially beautiful and interesting while managing to stay 'loyal to their origin'. Also the music slaps
ALGORITHM LETS GOOOOO
Heck yeah!!!
A much needed overview and I appreciate that you prioritized clades unique to Kaimere as this is what I personaly was most curious about in regards to bugs. Obviously to say that a lot more can be said on the topic would be an understatement, given how diverse arthropods are, but this was a great introduction, adding a lot of context along with some cool species.
Thank you! Was definitely good to explore
When you focus on arachnids, don't forget about their ballooning abilities ( they can spread anywhere on the Jetstream).
Yeah spiders will definitely need their own episode. Just couldn't do more than scratch the surface of them here.
An amazing tribute to the most successful clade of animals to ever live! I can't wait to see the eusocial species, as I'm in the midst of developing my own species of eusocial sponge shrimp based on Synalpheus.
Arthropods are a powerful motor for life as on Earth as on Kaimere, Fantastic work as ever ❤👍
Thank you!!
Great video as always Keenan! The fact that Parkadiants eat Crabcraws remind me of some people eating fried mole crabs in some beaches in Brazil - as I did one time when I was young.
Can't wait to see how trilobites are doing in Kaimere
Heck yeah! Great little bits of protein. Had a scene in an early draft of The Lost Hellfighter of a character eating roasted crabcraw like popcorn or trail mix lol.
I really like how derived Zygentoma (basal insects like silverfish) seem to be one of the most dominant varieties of insects on Kaimere; a humble but unique lineage that deserves more attention.
Good episode I feel like you missed opportunity with creating some truly nightmarish little fellas. Ones presented here are more cute than menacing. My favourites are probably tendrilfly, gemweaver and ghraw.
Yeah creepy dudes are definitely out there I just wanted to focus more on unique clades and being mostly detritivores aren't going to be as horrifying as some of the parasites I'm planning to introduce later on.
Would love to see velvet worms of kaimere, theyre the cutest little things and one of the few genuine cambrian survivors.
They’re present I just didn’t have time to draw em
@@TalesofKaimere I imagine pakardia is where theyre most common?
@@highlyvurgultis3706 Can't say as I haven't done anything beyond confirmed their presence. I don't yet know where they are or how they're doing.
Even Kaimere could not escape the might of the beetle. At this point it is destined for beetles to take over all life.
Jokes aside, I liked the unique invertebrates in this video. In most spec-evo projects I’ve read don’t focus a whole lot on arthropods and similar animals, so this episode was a nice surprise.
The arthropods of Kaimere look really unique and I like the diversity that they have compared to Earth. I think the whipcraws are my favorite since they remind me of silverfish and I like that there are blue crabs in Kaimere since I usually eat them. I can bet the Kaimeran blue crabs taste as delicious since they are in Earth being boiled or used as crab cakes down in Louisiana.
Absolutely! Whipcraw were a lot of fun. Having spent a few years living in Maryland I definitely developed an affinity for blue crabs!
@@TalesofKaimere Haha, they are delicious. But I also eat Louisiana crawfish when they are boiled or be used in crawfish etouffee or white shrimp with shrimp creole. Oh, I have eaten insects like southern wood crickets being fried when I went to the Audubon Insectarium along with mealworms. Besides, I can bet a lot of animals in Kaimere would be great to eat if they were real.
Love this speculative biology series! :D
Would be neat to see a reef fish of Kaimere video someday 🐠
Buckle up! Don’t have a date set but there’s something in the works
That will be awesome!@@TalesofKaimere
I've never been one to explore creepy crawlies in speculative biology projects, but after this I might start putting some entries about them in my project!
Love to hear it! While it's certainly not my passion, I am grateful for the opportunity to explore them in greater detail. Really helps bring the world together.
Oh, I wonder if we'll hear about _Haidomyrmecinae_ (Hell Ants) in the next episode. They had such odd jaws compared to other ants.
A safe bet!
Hell yeah! Arthropods are easily the most underappreciated animals there are! Also, i love the fact that Ghraw sounds like some sort of caveman villain, like FEAR THE MIGHT OF GHRAW!!! Hahahahahah!! I just imagine a (relatively) giant one of these shrimp looking dudes walking around with a club! Haha! Good episode! On a different note, I finished the Kaimerean Jersy Devil, and the video is on my channel if you're interested.
Fantastic! Yeah it was a fun and perhaps rather dramatic name for such a humble little critter lol. I'll try to remember to check it out later today!
@@TalesofKaimere Nah! It's perfect! And thank you.
When I saw the Whipcraws I immediately thought they were a descendant or evolutionary branch off from the silverfish.
Hi, regarding conifers acid soil pH preferences mentioned around 20:30.
Conifers (which is a parafiletic group of gimnosperms) does not seem to prefer acidic soils as whole.
Preference to a certain soil pH evolves and changes many times in all plant groups. Meaning that kaimire's conifers could have many species adapted to many different soil pHs, like we see today, for example:
"Cupressaceae" contains a species adapted to acid soils as well as to basic soils and neutral soils.
Therefore angiosperms and gimnosperms in Kaimire would have a wide range of species adapted to both pHs, and unless those conifer forest where very acidic in most of their extension (which would be unlikely).
This assumtion may come from observing modern conifer forests which are more common in northern latitudes where they are adapted to more acidic conditions in general. But they are adapted not adapted for acid soils because any preference within the gimnosperms for acidity.
Thanks for your time. And sorry for any spelling mistakes.
Appreciate the insight! My experience is indeed with modern conifer forests. Certainly not my area of expertise. I know angiosperm-dominant rainforests also have very low soil pH so it's not something exclusive to gymnosperms, I just assumed there was a general gymnosperm preference. Clearly something I need to study further!
It's was a WONDERFULL episode as always ! And a Great Introduction to Arthropods on Kaimere !
It's was an obligation (and something obvious for all of us, your dear followers) to made a general overview and natural history of arthropods on Kaimere, due to how of a extremely complex mess and lmost infinite ocean their phylogenetic is (and that isn't an understement on top of that !)
And even here for this episode, I guess you still have struggled a lot to yourself understand what the subjects was for each groups mentionned (so my personnal praises for this work here)
But now that is done, now it will be possible to focus on specifics families overtime, step by step, over the future sponsors on the already mentionned groups or the ones left on the sides.
Ended up as a welcomed sub-series on these wonderfull, yet often underestimated critters, that are these several legged micro-organisms ! :)
Much appreciated!
Fascinating!
I would love to see an episode on trilobites in the future! A fantastic, fantastic episode over all, but still something I was kinda bumbed to see not be focused on. I'll just have to save up for a sponsership ;)
Out of curiosity, how far back in the history of Kaimere (as a project) do whipcraw and conifer mites go? And how changed are they or are they not from the original conception?
Excited to see the ants next week! Keep up the fantastic work!
We got trilobites in 2 weeks! Lots to cover I just didn't get any art finished before this had to air so it will be saved for their own episode.
Whipcraw and conifer mites go back over a decade in very basic concepts. I think whipcraw as a clade independent on Kaimere was while I was in undergrad, but a lot of the clades were conceived in high school, so 2004-2008. Conifer mites are older, being my first fake bug alongside the whip mantises, and actually predated the studies nesting termites within cockroaches (though I later read that had been theorized since the 1930's just hadn't been confirmed until 2008).
BANGER i love insect diversity
Heck yeah!
🐞🐜🦟🦋🪰🦗"Boogie Bugs!!!"🦂🕷️🦐🐝🪲🦀
I never knew what i was missing from Kaimere until now
And this is only scratching the surface!
Next are the seal,sea lions
This episode on Arthropods is extremely welcomed, enjoyable and great for quite a lot of good/relevants reasons !
Mainly because it acknowledge, mention, explain, depict and put forward one of the type of, but not the least, group of Micro-Fauna, and one of the most famous, successfull, complex itself and important to the ecosystem itself !
And the fact that this episode is part of a Spec Evo project and display speculative evolution organisms of this said category add even more of the hype and honors created by it already !
Reasons why are simple and pretty well know : Insects and Arthropods are extremely often overlooked in most Spec Evo Projects and settings, always at the favor of the bigger fauna between the size of a Mouse to Sauropods sized species.
Unless there almost any see zero vertebrates in a setting, Speculative Evolution domain don't even give a single fuck to Arthropods.
And when it did, its often brief and rare.
In comparison, I read most see all of "Serina : The World of Birds", a Big name in Spec Evo so, and despite how extremely long, extremely developped it is, and the tons of species displayed and describes from A to Z, there at best (no kidding, I let you know) only 2-3 speculative Arthropods species shown. As background or brief threat elements.
A burrowing cricket, a army of ants floating at the surface of the sea, and giant terrestrial crab-like species as far I remember.
Despite how the base list of seeded organisms is, it either about birds or either marine or land fishes.
At this point, a part of a Spec Evo about Arthropods is an oasis in the middle of the desert....
This is why this video is whithout any doubts one of the best you made so far ! 👍
Thank you so much! So much more to cover but I’m pleased with this as an overview and introduction especially to clades unique to the planet
Oo finally arthropods in kaimere
ngl ive come back tot his video a few times and am considering starting a project of my own just to talk about beetles for three hours
Haha do it! So many options
I had an idea for a domestic lion breed, Imagine a lion built like a pit bull, A Dino hunting lion, There would have to be some jaguar in there because jaguars are awesome sauce
WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR NECTAR!
Nooo, not the placoderms. I am utterly heartbroken 😢
Wait, if the extinction was largely coastal then wouldn't deep ocean placoderms survive?
Reject Scorpion, Become Crab
This is the way.
waited to watch this for at least ten hours
AND I CAME WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT BUT HAD TO GO TO SCHOOL!
Hope it was worth the wait!
Thylacocephalans would be neat.
No placoderms ☹️
At least I have placoderm-inspired aliens in my own speculative evolution project.
Hey are there any extant placoderm species?
@@Masterplanfoiler Nope. They all went extinct at the end of the Devonian.
Well at least we have trilobites on Kaimere. Eurypterids and placoderms seem to have been among the many that died in THE SOUP. Kinda hoping the Sea “Scorpians” are still holding out in the abyss but time will tell.
Good to see that invertebrates get some more attention! Since you mentioned that most arthropod clades are also be present on Kaimere, would that also include notostracans, cyclids and thylacocephalans?
Indeed! Just scratching the surface of course, but it was a very fun overview. As for those clades, I'm not familiar with them so don't want to confirm without study but they probably have some representatives!
@@TalesofKaimere
The last two clades are quite obscure, but that might make it worth it to take a closer look at them.
A question i keep having is what is up with Cycads and Ginkos in Kaimere? Maybe im just forgetting when you talk about them, but conifers seem to be what you talk about with gynosperms, which is interesting and makes me wonder
Cycads and ginkgos are doing great. Conifers tend to be what I show because it’s a familiar point of reference (a lot of folks know the differences between conifers and deciduous trees) but there are high populations and diversity of many other gymnosperm clades.
@@TalesofKaimere pog moment
Oh yeah! Insects are a big part of diets all around the world in my setting too! The reasons being (a) I’m very much biased and think that fried insects are delicious (b) insects consume far less resources and space when farmed, which is a big factor in a world with mad magi running around and burning stuff (c) a lot of non-human sophonts in my world are fairly insectivorous by nature and this culture of rich insect cuisine has naturally spread to humans and other hominins by trading and diplomacy.
Oh my god I want to pet the moakai
The bug episode, the bug episode is real!
Heck yeah! DIdn't run for over an hour like the original script would have, but there's only so many hours in the day for art and whatnot. Just means I'll have to do more episodes!
@@TalesofKaimere this will be a good month for me.
Can we get an episode of nothing but the crabs ?
I'd be down if I got a sponsor! Would probably be a pretty big sponsorship but I could do a shorter overview episode
Jumping Scorpions…
Not scared of bugs but a jumping scorpion would scare the shit out of me
Glad you aren’t crazy enough to get into that level of detail with beetles
It seems like dire griffinflies would decent pets
Medical maggots seem like they would be more effective with Kaimeran’s magical healing
I want to eat a marine scorpion
Trilobite converging into termite niche would be fascinating ;p
I LOVE BUGS
They're so cool!
What has a bigger impact on ecosystems in kaimere, megafauna like titanosaurs or pollinators like bees?
Currently titanosaurs. They are second to humans in terms of climate impact and their acidic dung has reshaped a lot of the soil composition. All that said, pollinators have a huge impact just might fall short of titans, which are also pollinators and seed dispersers/fertilizers
I WILL EAT THE BUGS AND YOU *CANNOT* STOP ME
DO IT. Excellent protein.
A Bug's Life Kaimere version.
29:18 😲 (POG)
Nice video, did honey bees make it to kaimere? Speaking of which do you plan to do a video on livestock?
There are indeed honeybees. I don’t have anything lined up for domesticates but certainly would pursue the topic if I got a sponsor!
Hi there
So trilobites are still alive on Kaimere?
Yup!
@@TalesofKaimere Ok. ^_^
Anyway, in case you're curious or interested, I've found that the user named GurgiFan57 is currently making a project called Liera, which is inspired by your project Kaimere (albeit with some differences). I have found Liera (made by GurgiFan57 himself) as cool and interesting as your Kaimere project. :)
nice
Thanks!
your welcome@@TalesofKaimere
velvet worms?
Yes though no details on them. Just know they exist
@@TalesofKaimere hope you added omnidens the bigger one
I like that sir
Implying I wouldn’t watch an hour long video on beetles lol
After the arthropods we’re head to see seals 🦭 and sea lions,large grazing herbivores and maybe the future of this world
What software or program do you use to make your art, or is it all like paper drawings, I’m looking for recommendations
I draw using Prismacolor colored pencils, then scan it and put it together in photoshop
God bless
So is kaimere free of wasps or did they just not get mentioned here?
As I mentioned at the beginning of the episode, every arthropod on Earth has representatives in the known world. There are wasps, I just chose to focus on clades without close modern relatives to highlight that there has been a lot of independent evolution.
Don’t worry, Kaimerans get to deal with nightmares from both the past and present.
I really like your whipcraws as stem pterygotes, its a great idea. Are there any myriapods?
Thank you! And yes, centi and milli aplenty. Thought I mentioned as much in the Arthropleura segment but this script went through so many cuts and revisions that I’m sorry if they slipped through the cracks. Definitely didn’t get around to designing any but they are present.
@@TalesofKaimere No, arthropleura was in the video, excuse my idiocy for forgetting the myriaopd segment when typing that comment, haha.
It's all good! I packed so much into this it's understandable that one of the less-covered segments might slip through the cracks @@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574
So I just got a quick question are there any Stegosaurs that were harvested from earth or have they fallen back into extinction from competition from other animals?
They unfortunately went extinct in Kaimere. They weren’t bad animals or anything, just became specialized and when the context changed they failed to adapt.
@@TalesofKaimere ooh ok
What’s most numerous arthropod on Kaimere?
Probably termites or conifer mites
How big did arthropleura get on Kaimere?
Same size as the Earth species, which appears to be the upper size limit of their morphology at least on lad.
hey are there any surviving Scansoriopterygidae in Kaimere or even if they are extinct in the present day did, they survive longer than their earth counterparts? or even make it to kaimere?
They're definitely extinct, though may have made it to Kaimere at some point in the past. Not something I've finalized, just know they're extinct in modern times.
also, I loved the Medicine fly such a cool out there concept which also seems more possible than many other out there concepts for speculative evolution I have heard.
@@TalesofKaimere cool thanks for answering my question
I have to ask, are there any surviving Eurypterids somewhere on modern Kaimere?
Probably not. I say probably since I don't want to rule out what's going on in the abyss until I get a chance to develop it more, but they almost certainly are extinct.
@@TalesofKaimere Aw, that's a shame, they're my favorite ancient arthropods. Hopefully they'll show up in the Kaimeran abyssal regions somewhere, that'd be cool.
Not much to say here. I love some good microfauna.
Absolutely. Overlooked yet so important.
BUG TIME BUG TIME LETS GOOOO
Real bug hours
massive W
1st dynasty episode?????
bigger W
Heck yeah it is! Can't wait to dive in
HI! I was wondering if it'd be okay if I used your book for a school project? Sorry if this a bit strange I wasnt sure how else to ask lol
Absolutely! That’s awesome. What sort of project?
thank you so much! from what I can tell its a project on 3 books we havent read before, since ive been meaning to read your anthology I figured it'd be a good fit @@TalesofKaimere
The lads.
They have arrived
What do you use for your music?
I can imagine some of these songs being from the Houze prairie, the seridic wetlands, or deep in pakardia's forests. You have some stuff that wouldn't sound out of place in the middle east(Houze) but also some more country sounding stuff(seridic) and really ancient feeling stuff(Pakardia)
All of my music is from Epidemic Sounds, a subscription platform that licenses a lot of audio files.
@@TalesofKaimere The choices for each video makes me wonder what Kaimere's music scene looks like.
Like... I'd imagine they don't have a jazz scene or rock concerts but I can still imagine some pretty unique sounds. Maybe even stuff from bones of the unique fauna or gourds dried into new instruments. I think art of one of your characters shows that string instruments are present and drums are... well drums.
@@Avisrex1995 Someday I'd love to develop their music and all that. While there is some human influence from back during the Mercantile Age (lyres and other Bronze Age instruments from the Mediterranean and Americas came to Kaimere) a lot of the instruments and music styles are independent. Going to have to spend a lot of work developing entirely unique musical instruments and genres. Something I plan to at least describe in the books though if Kaimere ever takes off in media with any substantial budget I would obviously outsource that to someone who knows more about music than I do.
@@TalesofKaimere the idea of picking up in media made me think of a kaimere movie or given your short stories, a whole series... but the richness of your lore wouldn't be done justice unless due to budgets... the pen can do what it desires... the camera less so sadly.
Also, I'm dinobenten or Avisrex on deviant art, I asked about the anomalocarids a moment ago.
yesss I LOVE a nasty and tasty bug
YES YESSS YESSSSSSSSSS
Bugs 🐜
Bugs indeed
Paleodictyopterans?
What about them?
@@TalesofKaimere I saw what I thought was one (and, as it turned out, was one) in the thumbnail. I was getting excited.
@@trilobite3120 Oh, yes indeed!
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Fantastic Art and Amazing Video as always!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 💖❤️💖❤️
Thank you!
@@TalesofKaimere Your Welcome 🤗