#sagan 4 alpha

[sillyboysmackdown]

hello sillyboy enthusiasts ! the bracket for the redemption round has been finalized, here are your contestants!

the polls will begin either tomorrow or the day after. in the meantime, feel free to spread more propaganda!! happy voting everyone !! <3

[disgustedorite]

[your-fave-is-forklift-certified]

Planda from Sagan 4 Alpha is Forklift Certified!

[thebigdeepcheatsy]

A sauceback that I call the "Creekree"

Lineart by me

Colors by @oviraptorfan

[thefoilguy]

Planda from Sagan 4 Alpha - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

You should consider lurking or even joining Sagan 4 Alpha

*checks out what Sagan 4 Alpha is*

okay, you had me at Sagan cause funnily enough that´s also the name of the famous cyclist from my country, but now I am hooked - line, sinker and the whole fishing pole

expect new crazy species coming soon to Sagan 4 Alpha

[doritedraws]

The hearthead was the second species I ever submitted to the Sagan 4 Alpha timeline, and accompanied the opportunity shrew as a sauceback which evolved in reaction to it. Hearthead's defining characteristic is the presence of photoreceptors inside the scent pits, allowing for some limited vision. Though the hearthead is not considered a true ornithere (avian/bird-like sauceback), in addition to its eyes it already has a number of other characteristics which would later be common to ornitherian saucebacks, such as aerodynamic feathers sporting just a single unbranching rachis (most other neodromeodonts have branching rachises) and ornithere-like skull and jaw morphology (which gives it its characteristic heart-shaped head).

Side note, the reason for the skull morphology was because I had made something up before we actually knew how sauceback jaws worked, and it turned out to be plausible anyway because hearthead already evolved from a sauceback with an unusually strong bite force. With that in mind, I wonder what non-hearthead harnessback jaw muscles are doing. I would imagine they'd probably already have a transitional form going on where the muscles which flex the jaws up and down in other saucebacks are instead being used to stabilize them for pinching, as that's actually the set of muscles that became the biting ones in hearthead--something they accomplished by moving the attachments closer to the center plane (which would probably result in greater and greater stability as well) and developing upper and lower sagittal crests.

Not that any of that makes sense if you've never examined the sauceback musculoskeletal diagrams. (hey @evolution-incarnate you drew the bones, do my musings about muscles and skull morphology seem sound?)

[sagan-4]

Celebrating 17 Years of Sagan 4

Sagan 4, one of the oldest collaborative speculative evolution projects still ongoing, celebrates its 17th anniversary on September 2nd. And we're still open for new species submissions, even after all these years!

Current Events

Sagan 4 Alpha is open for Week 27, Generation 167

Sagan 4 Beta is open for Week 4, Generation 21

Ongoing Submission Challenges:

Air Sifter Challenge (Sagan 4 Alpha) - Create a species that captures food particles from the air.

What a Tool! (Sagan 4 Alpha) - Create a species that uses tools from a non-tool-using ancestor.

Prime Specimen #12: A Thornshell in Your Side (Sagan 4 Alpha) - Create a descendant of the Thornshell or the Darwin Thornshell.

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[silicon65]

Have you ever heard of Sagan 4 Alpha, the collaborative worldbuilding project which has been running for 15 years where anyone can make a species?

this is amazing, thank you for telling me. I will check it out further

[spyglassrealms]

What about Sagan 4 Alpha? It;s the oldest collaborative spec evo project still running, and it was the first true "evo game".

SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT SAGAN 4!!! I'm gonna edit my post to include that ASAP holy fuck, thank you for reminding me anon!!

[cretaceous-kid]

Look up sauceback from Sagan 4 Alpha and pick your favorite. That is you

whoa i like this lil fella, what a creature

[sillyboysmackdown]

ROUND ONE: Littoral Cillibilli (Sagan 4 Alpha) vs. Wally Darling (Welcome Home)

[disgustedorite]

I've been adding more random species displays to the Sagan 4 wiki to make it increasingly easy to find stuff to evolve from, and recently I added random selections of each major living group of sauceback to the sauceback page...

...and it basically just looks like this every single time

[your-fave-is-forklift-certified]

I dunno if we can just put things here to be gotten to when submissions start up again, BUT:

Planda from Sagan 4 alpha?

yeah sure!

[yeshihellodani]

It’s done! :D

Thank you to the people who requested characters! ^^

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

Stamp making fun of yourself for not being able to tell apart plandas and snawlers