Chapter 35: Research Project on Types of Guards (1)
Well......
After thinking for a moment, Dixing had an idea.
At the moment, he is considering several directions.
It is completely based on its own future development direction, and takes several evolutionary directions as the research direction.
The first category, tentatively named Wyvern.
This category is to study the tags related to various flight abilities, and all guards are based on the tags related to flight ability, various structures that can reduce weight but not reduce defense too much.
Birds are of course the most typical creatures with the ability to fly, and feathers are also an important research object for flight aids.
Then there is the pterosaur, that is, the pterosaur, not to mention, in the absence of feathers, what kind of wing shape is the best, the least impact on the ability to move, moreover, the ability to fly, the earth is ultimately to be used on himself, he does not intend to sacrifice the ability to act on land, the pterosaur's pterosaur can be considered, but other body structure-related labels are definitely the focus.
There are also many insects, as the first flying creatures in the world in the previous life, although their structure is mostly limited to small size, but their flight ability related tags should also be available.
Who wouldn't love an exoskeleton that could eliminate the negative effects associated with body size and have strong defensive capabilities.
Moreover.......
Various insects, such as dragonflies, butterflies, beetles, etc., have many pairs of legs.
Their sheer number of appendages may be the hope that they will be able to acquire additional limbs on their own, and that they will be able to fly without the need for their forelimbs to be specialized into winged hands.
Moreover, being able to fly, it can undertake various tasks of reconnaissance and transfer and transportation of important materials.
Later, if the research achieves certain results, it can be subdivided into ornithischian or feathered dragon species, and then pterosaur species.
As for the insect ......, maybe you can make some small-sized insect specialized dinosaurs for reconnaissance, called insect dragon species, and if you don't think it sounds good, you can also call it Lepidopterans or something.
As for beasts, such as bats and the like, that's for later.
The second category is tentatively designated as the Earth Dragon species.
Specializes in labeling capabilities suitable for both above-ground and underground living.
Hashtags like mining are of course the basic standard, but his idea is to divide them into two to three categories.
The first direction is based on "terrestrial organisms", carrying out various researches, studying various ground adaptation labels, focusing on various internal structures and large-scale.
And the large-scale animals, the most famous are the dinosaurs themselves.
In addition to this, there are various beasts.
After all, the main ones who compete for hegemony on the ground are the descendants of the Chorus and the sauromorphs, and the large-scale ones are basically the descendants of these two families.
From an evolutionary point of view, the biggest difficulty in getting from the ocean to the land is not only breathing and food, but also the gravity burden of large-scale.
You need to be strong enough to support your internal structure, otherwise your body will collapse.
However, after the large-scale increase, relative sluggishness will follow, and the geo-walking should be large enough without affecting the agile body structure.
If you subdivide it, forget about the "dragon", it is easy to confuse, it may be better to call it a mountain dragon, needless to say the relationship between the mountains and the earth, and when you hear the mountain, you can often associate it with huge.
The second direction is to live underground with the ability to live.
The ability to dig often requires the forelimbs or head as an organ to act as a digging tool.
The action of excavation, in the roughest description, is to insert it, warp it up, and dig out these three actions.
Combined with the research direction of forelimb attack specialization and claw specialization.
In the final analysis, the concept of "flexibility" has a lot of overlap with "generic".
Specialization often represents a loss of flexibility.
Try to be as flexible as possible and increase your aggressiveness.
It is good to do what you need to get to the point where "the claws are flexible, and in the case of specialized aggressiveness, it comes with the ability to dig".
In addition to the ability to dig, there are other ways of perceiving other than vision, especially in lightless environments.
Although he also talked about energy-related perception before, he has this ability now.
However, even if there is, it doesn't mean that there is no need to study, a version is the first line, it does not mean that it is the first line all the time.
In the fantasy world, it is likely that there will be various artificial intervention in the direction of evolution, such as what method of using magic to directly create life, in case you accidentally fall behind, it will be bad.
Senses such as sight, hearing, smell, and touch are all directions that can be explored in underground life.
If this direction grows in the future, it will be called ...... I haven't thought about it yet, but I'll talk about it then.
The third category is the dinosaurs with various directions of arthropods as the evolutionary direction, I didn't think of a good name, keyword combination, and it is easy to think of a certain Neptunesaurus, called Shield Dragon, and it is easy to think of a group of ankylosaurs or a larger group of nodular dragons.
However, he himself is more inclined to the "shield dragon".
Just like just now, using the small shield dragon as the basal dinosaur that evolved into arthropods, he planned to use a variety of dinosaurs with stacked armor or horns and various exaggerated appendages on their bodies as the basal group.
Needless to say, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Swollen-headed Dragon, or something.
Originally, he wanted to move the second branch of the Earth Dragon Species here, but he thought about it.
In this category, the main research direction is various body walls and body surface appendages.
It can be said to be "armor", or it can be said to be "weapon".
The sub-columns of this classification are mainly divided into these two types.
Large animals only need to be physically crushed to achieve results.
However, because of their small size, arthropods of all kinds need to be used in a variety of ways if they need to attack.
And because their basic body forms are various exoskeletons, and there are many appendages that can be trial-and-error, they have developed a variety of strange weapons.
What chelicera, what tail spines, what poisonous needles, what fangs.
The physical structure of human beings is not the best, it can be said that the only advantage of human beings is the two specializations of "brain" and "endurance", and other attributes are lower than other creatures of the same size.
However, the most important advantage of human beings is "weapons" or tools.
The ground line has no intention of giving up weapons.
However, isn't it better to produce your own weapon parts than to rely on foreign objects that you may not be able to find?
So, what animals are suitable for producing parts.
Arthropods with molting habits.
Even, there is also the idea of "whether arthropods can be specialized into a body structure like gears", and let them use it after molting.
Yes, there is a plan to make the direction of arthropods into the direction of production resources.
But this is still in the whimsical stage.
The main research direction is to enhance defense and aggression while ensuring flexibility, and at the same time, compared with bones, his impression of the chitin exoskeleton structure is that the defense power is not too inferior or sometimes exceeded, but the weight is relatively light.
It's a pity that I didn't bring a scientific research team to another world.
Otherwise, how can you use yourself, a half-known half-asser, to try your best to think about the direction of development here.