#phylogenetic tree

[aviculor]

Phylogenetic Tree of Invertebrate Pokemon (Gen 9 Edition)

[monidoll]

Tried to put together a decently parsimonious phylogeny

[three-crows-in-hiking-boots]

WOF Phylogenetic tree!

Okay, so who are the ancestors? What are their traits? I don't have names for them at the moment, but their traits, based on the resulting generation of most likely ancestral traits created by the phylogeny program, are the following:

12: heightened senses, venom, vibration sensing, 4 wings, metamorphosis 13: venom, 4 wings 14: 2 wings, venom, prehensile til, photosynthetic abilities 15: 2 wings, chromatophores (color changing) 16: 2 wings, heightened senses, larger size, large lungs, webbed claws, gills, bioluminescence 17: 2 wings, elemental breath, larger size, large wings/extremities 18: 2 wings, elemental breath, extreme thermal tolerance 19: 2 wings, elemental breath, extreme thermal tolerance 20: 2 wings, elemental breath, heightened senses, forked tongue

Data/methods below the cut, as well as a (brief) dive into evolutionary history for Beetle-Night Hybrids and why I want some history on Beetles lol

Night-Beetle Hybrids and HiveWings Before anyone gets on my tail about BeetleWings evolving before HiveWings and Hives being hybrids of NightWings and BeetleWings, I'm not a huge fan of that in canon, but don't mind the interbreeding in general. I just mind the genetic bottleneck that would have occurred with only one NightWing (Clearsight) breeding with a BeetleWing and their offspring resulting in a completely new species. Now, mutations can arise, and maybe NightWing traits were dominant in passing, but for a whole new species to arise from a single generation of interbreeding with a single pair of mates, it doesn't really make sense, especially since BeetleWing traits were (presumably) selected for their environment.

Selection occurs based on the following: 1) Environmental adaptation (species with traits more suited to the environment will live longer and be able to reproduce more) 2) Mutations (the rate is slow over time, but adds up over LONG time scales as alleles accumulate in populations) 3) Migration (Low migration rates (such as occurred in Pantala) mean that genetic drift, selection, and mutation occur independently between populations, ie, what happens in the BeetleWing/NightWing populations won't affect the other, genetically, due to low interbreeding)

Basically, with only a SINGLE Nightwing individual, and assuming there was no prior cross breeding, there MUST'VE been an extinction event that removed the pool of pure BeetleWings from the population, otherwise the proportion of BN to BB should have stayed the same over time (Hardy-Weinberg principles). This, obviously, isn't the case. As far as we know in canon though, they simply dissapeared. My evolutionary biology brain needs some history. Alas, I'll write my own (mwahaha). Don't even get me started on genetic bottlenecks lol. Biology is CRAZY.

Tree Creation The tree was generated based on species traits assigned as base pair markers on DNA with one base pair indicating a 1 (trait present) or a 0 (trait not present)! Since phylogenies can't be built with 1s and 0s, I randomly assigned ACTG to them, being sure to make all of the traits that were 1s into the same letter in a single column to ensure it was (hopefully) denoted as present.

The traits

Green indicates a trait is present (would have been a 1), while white is not present (0)

[hkayakh]

I had a dream about the evolution of letters but it was structured like this

And letters and numbers were on it together, which makes sense cause letters were used as numbers

[uhhhyaenbyjade]

I'm so mad.

I was looking into tyrannosaur family trees, as one does, and was all like, hey, Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus are considered sister taxons despite being on opposite sides of the world, what gives? How have we all missed this crucial fact!

I was thinking about it the past few days, and decided to make a passion project where I remade the tyrannosaur family tree with more intake from geography and what biology we had. Today I started it and was looking into papers, and then I remembered something. Beringia. The landmass that was once in place of the Bering Strait. It wasn't just open for migrations during the human migrations, but also in the Cretaceous period.

My passion project was ruined because I forgot about thE BERING STRAIT HBJGVHJHGVFHJHKCS

[anonymous-witness777]

[Image ID: a speculative phylogenetic tree for all living things in Minecraft, including mobs and any "plant" or "fungus" lifeforms. The phylogenetic tree is illustrated using images from the game. The three highest domains are: Gramina, including grasses, vegetables, and most trees; Prismata, including creepers, slimes, and squids; and Velamina, including all fungi-like lifeforms, most animals, symbiotes (Wither and golems), and flowering plants. /.End ID]

Minecraft evolutionary tree of life, inspired by this one by NitroHydroRay. But in this one, life evolved very differently than it did on our world (it is UNHINGED). Click to zoom.

The clades are all invented, and I tried to name most clades (the ones lower than the three highest domains) according to the zoological guidelines: purple = superfamily, blue = family, green = subfamily, yellow = tribe, orange = subtribe.

[iamthekaijuking]

It’s finally here! The new and improved 2023 version of my Piscine wyverns, most leviathans, and true elder dragons phylogenetic tree. (Outdated, here’s the current version.)

There is quite the substantial difference between this version and the older ones. Each species profile is also more in depth than my last tree, the flying wyvern tree, because there’s a lot more room for speculation in these monsters. A lot of this is also recontextualizing and reworking many outlandish traits some of these monsters have and basically giving some of canon/what some of the hunters guild tells us the middle finger for the sake of more interesting theories. Some of the scientific names for the families were made by my friend TheCuriousOne. They came up with the names for their own tree and allowed me to use some of these names too.

Because the written description is almost 100,000 characters long, I had to put it in a google doc that you can read here! I even added a chapter index so you can skip to the families you want to read.

This is probably the most in depth monster hunter cladogram on the internet

[baroquepopcorn]

I swear all phylogeny looks like this: