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Sionwata
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Early
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Approximately
3.4 billion years ago, in the warm waters of the
Sea of Manticore , a small unicellular organism
known as Sion, broke away from its parent, the
Ryon cell and became an independent organism.
Scientists believe that the Ryon cell was possibly
the very first life form on planet Vesta. One
billion years later after living as a singular
organism, the individual Sion cells began clumping
together. This new clump became stronger and survived
many evolutions. Finally, this clump became known
as Sionwata. Sionwata cells had the beginning
of an organized interior which included a nucleus
that controled cell activity, other sensory parts
and other microscopic parts and vacuoles with
specialized functions. A vacuole is a fluid filled
space surrounded by a membrane.
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Sionwata
cell reproduction was asexual in method which means
that it was achieved by the splitting of a basic
cell, thus becoming two cells. This is also known
as cloning. Eventually, a cluster of single cells
began to cling together and form a clump. This clumpy
life form soon developed multiple tentacles around
its clumpy outer edges. The tentacles functioned
like boat paddles and a rudder moving a sea vessel
around in the mighty oceans. This was a necessary
evolutionary phase because the tentacles were needed
to navigate the fast southern ocean currents off
the Belenus continent. Moreover, the tentacles were
needed to negotiate food particles floating in the
waters. When a cell absorbs nutrients, it is called
phagocytosis. In appearance, Sionwata was quite
orange in color, this was due to the many yellow
plastids included in the cell makeup. Therefore,
the primitive Sionwata clump was orange in color,
clumpy and had tentacles all around its outer edges.
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Name: Sioncraw
1st Environment:
Sandy Sea Floor
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One billion
years later, the species Sioncraws evolved. Sincraws
was the next descendant of the species Sionwata.
Sioncraws made their habitat on the ocean floor
in the warm waters of the Manticore ocean. Only
about three centimeters in length, this primitive
creature's body structure evolved in such as fashion
as to adapt to life as a scavenger searching for
food on the ocean floor. For example, most of
the surrounding exterior tentacles had vanished
or evolved into a new body part. Some tentacles
became walking legs, some tentacles became antenna-like
structures, some tentacles became rear sensors
and some tentacles simply became obsolete and
therefore vanished. The Sioncraw species was considered
to be a type of saprotrophic organism. That means
that this species feeds on the excrement and waste
products of other life forms or feeds on the waste
from decaying tissue of dead animals and plants.
This cleansing work is an important job in an
ecosystem. Because of the advancement of the evolution
of this species, and because food was abundant
(waste product), the Sioncraws was able to flourish
and reproduce sexually. Sexual reproduction strengthens
a species' population because of the diversification
of the gene pool. Sexual reproduction meant male
and female Sionscraws mating and laying fertilized
eggs in the sand. This sort of breeding and freedom
of movement resulted in a vast population in a
wide array of biomes.
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Name: Sion-Rockcrab
2nd Environment: Rocky Shore
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Nine million
years after the emergence of the Sioncraw, we
saw evidence of yet another oceanic descendant
of this species: the Sion-rockcrab. This new
species became something of an amphibian. This
curious new creature began to wander further
and further away from the ocean floor and walked
right onto the rocky shores, also known as the
tide pool region. The evolution of the Sion-Rockcrab
was very interesting and logical. For example,
whereas its predecessor, Sioncraw, had short
fast crawling legs, the rock-shore dweller,
the Sion-Rockcrab developed long walking legs.
These legs were powerful and able to cling on
to rocks and also able to climb up trees or
over jagged rocks on slippery surfaces. The
grabbing mechanism had to be especially strong
in order to remain steady on the rocks despite
the thrashing and pounding of the surf. Moreover,
these powerful legs were hunting tools. The
long tenacious gripping tools at the end of
the front feet of the Sion-Rockcrab would capture
and quickly kill prey. Besides these powerful
claws, the Sion-Rockcrab also further enhanced
the antenna mechanism. The two hanging antennae
in the front region of the Sion-Rockcrab were
sensors of the environment. To clarify, since
the Sion-Rockcrab had such poor vision, the
antenna helped to "see" by sensing
objects and surfaces that were near by. As a
survival mechanism, during the time of the year
on Vesta when the weather turns harsh and stormy,
the Sion-Rockcrab migrates off the rocky shores
and back into the familiar sea floor of the
kelp forest-like biome. It is during this time
in a safer environment that all Sion-Rockcrabs
mate. Later, when the weather on shore at the
tide pools had improved, the Sion-Rockcrab laid
eggs in the soft muddy tide pool floor and remained
in the area to protect the eggs until they hatched.
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Name:
Sionhermitcarb
3rd Environment: Kelp Forest
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One
million years after the emergence of the Sion-Rockcrab,
the Sion lineage of aquatic species produced another
new member: the Sion-Hermitcrab. During the mating
migrations of the Sion-Rockcrab, in the kelp forest-like
habitat, some of these creatures failed to return
to the rocky shores and remained on the ocean floor
the rest of their natural lives. The result was
a new creature that had the capabilities of the
original crawling scavenger and the sensing and
grasping capabilities of the rock shore species.
And so, the Sion-Hermitcrab fed on debris and waste
matter that settled on the ocean floor, and lost
its ability to capture fresh prey in its mighty
pinchers. This species also began residing inside
a hard shell to protect its soft abdomen. Being
a scavenger by nature, this crab never manufactured
its own shell instead, it would move into a shell
that belonged to another species. For instance,
if the Sion-Hermitcrab needed a new shell and saw
a perfect one passing by, it would use its aggressive
hunting pinchers to pluck out and remove the occupant.
This hostile take-over resulted in a new home for
the scavenging Sion-Hermitcrab. The specific type
of shells required for a proper fit for the Sion-Hermitcrab
are called gastropod shells. One unique thing about
this new species was that it developed a new pair
of small back legs that assisted in the moving in
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Diagram
of Water Animal Relationship
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Sionwata
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Group
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Sioncraw
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Sionrockcrab
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Sionhermitcarb
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This
Page is created by Joseph Choi
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