くコ:彡 Bio-lexical curiosities

くコ:彡 Greeti<gs, Zeo Zew Trollslum! ' <'
くコ:彡 As o<e with a pe<cha<t for poring o>er the great di>ersity of life, I'll occasionally fi<d pleasi<g co<figuratio<s of collecti>e <ome<clature.
くコ:彡 For i<sta<ce ame<able to mi<ds <ot-yet primed to scale the >e<erable ladders of taxonomy:

くコ:彡 These words! Mag<ificent! Ki<ng! Raggia<a! Red! Blue! Emperor! Goldie's! Twel>e-Wired!
くコ:彡 What word or a<imal's <ame ca< follow all of those words???? A<swer below o< your clie<ts!
くコ:彡 Fabulous prizes await! By which I mea< I shall offer a more challe<gi<g associatio< to make. Good luck!

くコ:彡 Excelle<t!
くコ:彡 I<deed, these are all birds of paradise.
くコ:彡 Try this o<e o< for >ery small size, the<:

くコ:彡 sac-wi<ged! mouse-tailed! sucker-footed! disk-winged! hollow-faced! leaf-nosed! horsehoe! vesper! pallid! moustached!

くコ:彡 A-ha! A< astute reader of my Tollblrlog, I see!
くコ:彡 >erily, those >aguely-i<sulti<g phrases (to the wro<g ears, the ki<d that ca<'t even catch some sweet rebou<d o< the echolocators) are all >arieties of bat!
くコ:彡 Specifically (or would it be more accurate to say Sub-orderly?), families of Microbats!

くコ:彡 Your <ext challe<ge, the<: Sahara! a<ise! mimetic! mocker! >olta! Kilima<jaro! di<gy! orchard! Palamedes! espera<za! Ca<adian tiger!

I WANNA SAY CRABS. ARE THEY CRABS?

くコ:彡 You'd best get out from u<der that rock a<d fi<d some other critters, because there's <o dar< thi<g as a Ca<adia< Tiger Crab!

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Ouroboros!

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くコ:彡 Correct!
くコ:彡 It occurs to me that this game is >eeeeery easily wo< if you allow a search e<gi<e to complete the <ames of creatures, so while I ca<<ot stop you from doi<g so, I should espouse the >irtues of personal reward i< cracki<g the case unassisted.

くコ:彡 The <ext set is <ot a specific taxa of a<imals, but i<stead, a set of biological co<cepts which all e<d i< a particular word!

くコ:彡 What word follows: LaNarus, El>is, Nombie?

I have no idea!

gho2t? ghoul? 2keleton?

oh my gosh those are z's.

me 10 minutes ago: "What is Nombie???"

prions, plasmids, perhaps proteins?

¡Táxóñ!

くコ:彡 Σar>ellous!
くコ:彡 LaNarus taxa, El>is taxa, a<d Nombie taxa are used i< paleo<tology to describe species doi<g weird thi<gs i< the fossil record.

くコ:彡 LaNarus taxa are species which >a<ished from the fossil record, iΣplyi<g their exti<ctio<, but crop up agai< Σa<y Σillio<s of years dow< the track!
くコ:彡 They'll "reappear" i< more rece<tly-laid layers of the sediΣe<tary rock which best preser>es fossils, but this is presuΣably because they were<'t bei<g fossilised, <ot that there were <o<e arou<d to cast i<to the silt!
くコ:彡 The fossils we fi<d are a fractio< of a s<apshot of all the life that was arou<d at the tiΣe, so you ca< thi<k of LaNarus taxa likea sampli<g error!




くコ:彡 I< a few rare cases, the orga<ism reappears <ot as a fossil, but a livi<g breathi<g exaΣple of the o<ce-thought-exti<ct species! The coeloca<th is such a< exaΣple.

くコ:彡 El>is taxa are iΣperso<ators!
くコ:彡 If a species e>ol>es i<to a<other species, it's tough to claiΣ the original we<t exti<ct. Sure, they're different species because they ca<'t breed, but it's a co<ti<uuΣ, <ot a hard li<e.
くコ:彡 SoΣetiΣes, a species va<ishes from the fossil record beyo<d a certain poi<t i< tiΣe, a<d is presuΣed exti<ct.
くコ:彡 U<til! A siΣilar species is fou<d i< a fresher layer, a<d it's decreed the old o<e sur>i>ed a<d e>ol>ed i<to the <ewer.
くコ:彡 A<iΣals are<'t terribly origi<al, though, a<d e>olution is rather harsh o< those which try <ew a<d whacky survival strategies.
くコ:彡 too ofte<, orga<isms co<>erge o<a siΣilar body pla< because that's what happeNs to just work, y'dig?
くコ:彡 E>e< whe< they're totally u<related! The <ew species, after bei<g outed as soΣethi<g other tha< the i<itially-decreed desce<da<t of the lost taxa, is labelled a< El>is Taxa.


くコ:彡 Nombie taxa are a<other paleo<tological bug!
くコ:彡 If a fossil gets dislodged froΣ its origi<al strata, a<d is washed i<to fresher sediΣe<t which the< starts o< its Σillio<s-years-jour<ey to becoΣi<g sediΣe<tary rock proper, it'll show up i< Σuch you<ger rock whe< e>e<tually disco>ered!
くコ:彡 A Nombie taxa Σay trick scie<tists i<to thi<ki<g a speciΣe< was ali>e a<d kicki<g far later tha< it really was.

くコ:彡 tha<ks for readi<g! I'Σ out of ideas for <ow but will help guess if a<ybody else wa<ts to share cool a<imal <ames.

くコ:彡 birds of a feather Σay flock together, but it's the bra<ches you perch o<, <ot the pluΣes you parade! - <-
くコ:彡 what a<iΣal ca< be prefixed with the followi<g?
くコ:彡 Gracile, dryad, Σo<tane, shrew-toothed, tai>a, and talaNac's?

Are these some kind of squirrel?

Are these some kind of squirrel?

くコ:彡 Zope!
くコ:彡 We're deal<g with a< a<iΣal with soΣe superficial siΣilarities to, but i< other Σa<<ers <othi<g like a squirrel.

Chipmunk?
Sugar glider?

Perhaps an opossum, or other marsupial?

くコ:彡 Zot chipΣu<k, sugar glider, opossuΣ, <or a<y other Σarsupial!
くコ:彡 Perhaps Σy clue was Σisleadi<g - while a squirrel would be three degrees of separatio< froΣ gracile+Σo<ta<e+shrew-toothed frie<ds, a crocodile would be <i<e.
くコ:彡 Zo poi<t scouri<g the correctly-<uΣbered city block if you're i< the wro<g borough, bio-brothers -> -

is the w in shrew-toothed a rotated form of another letter

くコ:彡 Zo

Okay so let us know this: Would we find a skeleton among those shrew-teeth?

in their closets

くコ:彡 I'll ha>e you k<ow that the assortΣe<t of beasts with their coΣΣo< <aΣe curtailed are bo<y i<deed!
くコ:彡 Spi<y bo<es all alo<g their dorsals, a<d ple<ty Σore besides!

So backbones they have
Crocs aren't close, squirrels are more
perhaps it's a horse?

Or are we barking up the wrong phylogenetic branch?

くコ:彡 A horse is, phyloge<etically, as Σuch a bark-ski<<ed tur< of i<correct phrase to our Σysterious cohort as a squirrel!