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Creature

A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.


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An odd question

... detailed and sometimes loath to answer questions with "because it's magic". What I currently need to know is if it is possible for a creature to have claws so sharp that they do not retain blood. What I mean by "retain" is whether the blood the creature draws could simply ...

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by Wilddwarf
Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:50 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: An odd question
Replies: 2
Views: 61

Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... that evolution has no direction in the philosophical sense. Nothing evolves into something "better" in the sense that we can look at a creature and say that it is particularly better than some other critter, just better suited to its environment. Among other things, I posit that if ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
Replies: 3
Views: 137

Cryonic freezing

... prevents them from completely freezing over. That is, you cannot store a frog in a liquid nitrogen and bring it back to life. I'm not sure which creature is the largest thing that you can actually freeze to -200 or so Celsius (which would be required for any proper cryopreservation), but I'd ...

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by biohazard
Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:21 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Cryonic freezing
Replies: 5
Views: 1394

Re: Cryonic freezing

... is more under the lines of, could you freze a organisum inside the human body? I mean like a worm something of that sort. Could we try to stop the creature in its track of distruction to give us enough time to save that human? Im not sure if it is posible, or if there could be a posible compound ...

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by Anonymous13
Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:03 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Cryonic freezing
Replies: 5
Views: 1394

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... in their genetic material and in their phenotype scientist aren't sure what to call them when this happens. Because they don't have a word for a creature that varies genetically does not negate the science of biology. I insist you are falling prey to lexical semantics. Please reconsider your ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:07 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2142
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