Editing Primordial Evolution Game/Ocean (section)

==Worem Evolution==
[[Image:Ocean_SmallChart_Worem.png|thumb|center|Worem Evolution]]

===Scooper Worem===
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<br />'''Scooper Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Worem
<br />-> Flat Worem
<br />-> Gut Worem
<br />-> Foot Worem
<br />-> Island Scooper Worem]]

The Scooper Worem got its name from the pair of feathery scoopers alongside their mouths, better sifting through the substrate for delicious nutrients.


===Flatworem===
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<br />'''Flatworem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Scooper Worem
<br />-> Fold worem
<br />-> Spindly Worem]]

A population of Worem became flat to better hide under the substrate. This allowed the Worem to slip through the rocky cracks.
Later, they'd develop a similar gene expression to the Feet Worem. The resulting limbs allowed them to rapidly flee predators by swimming to the safety of rocky cracks. They also had eyespots running along their backs, helping the Flat Worem avoid predators.







===Fold Worem===
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<br />'''Fold Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Flatworem
<br />-> Unshelled Flatworem]]

Some flatworems took to higher water, becoming more flexible and maneuverable above the surface of the sea floor. Their mouth shifted to the front of the body to filter out plankton they run across. The underbelly became lighter colored to blend in from above. They increased in size and evolved a series of light armored plates connected with tough but flexible tendons to protect themselves from predators.

===Unshelled Foldworem===
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<br />'''Unshelled Foldworem'''
<br/>Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Fold Worem
<br />-> Land Foldworem
<br />-> Island Flatworem]]

With time, the foldworms returned to their roots. They lost their plated exoskeleton in favor of a sleeker, faster body, their undersides sporting a light blue color to blend with the surface when seen from underneath. Eventually, the slits alongside its head began to function as additional mouths rather than just water outlets for their filter feeding.

===Spindly Worem===
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<br />'''Spindly Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Flatworem
<br />-> Paddle worem]]

Perhaps taking a cue from its cousin, the flatworem's leg-spines lengthen and become more flexible to allow it better swimming ability when it must flee for safety.



===Paddle Worem===
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<br />'''Paddle Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Spindly Worem
<br />-> Deep Paddle Worem]]

The Paddle Worem evolved ululating fins and electro-magnetic antennae.	







===Deep Paddle Worem===
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<br />'''Deep Paddle Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />-> Reef Paddle Worem]]

They descended deep into the Ocean, lost their pigmentation, and heightened their awareness. By manipulating the sodium intake in their improved nervous system, they gain some bio-electric capabilities. Its bio-electrical capabilities expanded with its growing nervous system. And its perception expands to the visual spectrum. Its intellect evolved to establish rudimentary schooling orders. They lit up in flickering swarms and overcame larger prey in an electrocution frenzy before ravenously devouring it.



===Reef Paddle Worem===
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<br />'''Reef Paddle Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Reef Paddle Worem
<br />-> Paddlefrowg]]

The Paddleworem made its return to the surface. Its pigmentation remained pale. Its row of eyespots atrophied and was replaced by an assortment of simple eyes located around its primaries. They lost their schooling trait in favor of mating pairs that actively watch over nests laying their egg clutches in reefs. Their rear sensors developed manipulators to traverse on the sea floor and beach shallows, saving energy and increasing their lifespan. Their need to breathe through moist skin limited them.




===Paddlefrowg===
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<br />'''Paddlefrowg'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Reef Paddle Worem
<br />-> Frowg]]

The paddleworem's returning trips to the shores allowed it to process oxygen from the air through its moist skin. In response its skin toughened as it traversed the prehistoric marshes and swamps bridging the pseudo-amphibian's way into terrestrial territories. Its constant pursuit by advancing air and landborne predators forced it to hide in muddy banks. Its lack of sodium deterred its bio-electric abilities. It retained its heightened senses, staying one step ahead of predators and prey as groups of frowgworems make harmonious chirps and clicks during breeding season.

A cartilaginous structure began the first steps into developing a genuine skeleton. Fully formed toes and red muscles fueled by an early single lung, (despite their dependance on absorbing oxygen through their skin still) develop as the paddlefrowg scuttles onto land into further inland water sources, spreading its influence far and wide. Airborne slucks compete with these landbound creatures and their wily maneuverability, maintaining a niche as one of the first genuine terrestrials, feeding on their woremy ancestors with controlled electric jolts from their roughly untouched forelimbs.

===Gut Worem===
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<br />'''Gut Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Scooper Worem
<br />-> Shield Worem]]

Worem digestive tracts became more efficient at processing food. This caused a visible bulging in their lower body. Gut Worems grew larger to compensate for a more complex digestive system. 

===Shield Worem===
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<br />'''Shield Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Gut Worem
<br />-> Fast Shield Worem]]
Predation from footWorem created a new breed of gutWorem with chitinous plates along their top. When threatened, they curl into a ball.
When faced with nutritious mosses they couldn't eat, just sucking algae off of, Shield Worem developed teeth to munch up dem leafy greens.
Also, their little manipulator things become more sensitive and switch functions to become antennae, allowing them to sense the water flow around them.



===Fast Shield Worem===
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<br />'''Fast Shield Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Shield Worem
<br />-> Protoglund]]

Faster Shield Worem are able to gobble down all the food before their bretheren get there. The soft underparts of some individuals become elongated and supple at their junctures, allowing for a rilling movement not unlike a centipede.

Many environmental pressures were negligible to Shield Worems. They had an immense population. They started their path with a boost for their digestion, came through survived widespread geological catastrophe almost unscathed, and their predators are too few to knock a serious dent in their population. This became the Shield Worem's greatest strength. Their next step takes this to another level: live birth and large litters. The old, slow-breeding Shield Worem can't keep up and die off. Predators can't make a dent in the overall population.
Also, their little leggy things separated into two legs instead of one rill.

===Protoglund===
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<br />'''Protoglund'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Fast Shield Worem
<br />-> Glund]]

The surface-dwelling Shield Worems, precursors to proper Glunds, developed primitive lungs to help them survive longer on out of water and get dem tasty greens. As a result it became a bit larger. It's feelers became more feathery and lighter to move in the air, and its jaws shifted slightly to help it chew these tougher plants.

===Leg Worem===
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<br />'''Leg Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Scooper Worem
<br />-> Leg Worem]]

The Worem began to develop a series of crude limbs, allowing it to scuttle or swim even faster along the ocean floor. This enhanced locomotive capability, combined with primitive eyes allowed it to take a more active role in the food chain. Their legs would develop further, allowing them tremendous speed on the ocean floor at the cost of slightly diminishing swimming capability. 
Their scoops also secreted a sticky resin that attracted plankton to its waiting maw. For a time, these worems also employed the use of luminescent spots on their scoops to attract the attention of larger prey.
At the animals rear was a stinger for use in deterring predators, and possible attacks from larger Leg Worem.

===Pincer Worem===
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<br />'''Pincer Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Leg Worem
<br />-> Bladeworem
<br />-> Skrimp
<br />-> Schwar]]

The forelimbs of the Pincer worem were dextrous claws for latching onto wandering prey, and its tail was the namesake pincer. The tail pincer had a gland which would produce a sticky resin. Combined with their simple eyes, the Pincer worem was an effective predator in its time.

===CentiWorem===
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<br />'''Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span> or <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: 
<br />-> Blade Worem]]

With their newfound sensory organs, the Centiworem became more predatory. Their aft-limbs developed into flippers for swift propulsion, while their fore-limbs became more adept at grabbing onto prey. Translucent flaps sprouted from its carapace, and it developed two more sets of eyes for tracking prey. A series of volcanic eruptions wiped out a sizable amount of their population, by chance leaving some of the more ferocious specimens. Cannibalism would become a more common occurrence in the species. Their exoskeletons served mostly to protect them from each other. They no longer used light to draw their prey. Instead, their scoops developed into chitinous jaws and their mouth became more adept at chewing up meat. Its aft-flippers became larger increasing its swimming acceleration. 

===Blade Worem (A.K.A. Slizer)===
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<br />'''Blade Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span> or <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Centiworem
<br />-> Jet Bladeworem]]

Bolstered by its new lifestyle as a swift-swimming predator and growing in size, the Centiworem developed a more efficient means of securing prey. With the various breeds of Fus becoming more resilient to attack, the Centiworem relied on their superior speed. Its fore-claws developed into bony cutting blades useful in hit-and-run. Bladeworem weakened their prey by striking them repeatedly before killing them with their powerful jaws. The Bladeworem changed their pigmentation to better suit their lives above the ocean floor. Their eyes fused into a set of compound eyes, and their inner-mandibles became better at tearing meat. Their natural fluids lost their adhesive properties becoming more caustic.

===Jet Bladeworem===
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<br />'''Jet Bladeworem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Blade Worem
<br />-> Pincerjaw Bladeworem]]

As the Bladeworem became increasingly active, their quick reflexes removed the need for a back-facing defense mechanism. Their aft-pincers became vestigial. The Bladeworem developed a water propulsion system that runs the length of its sinuous body, affording it a degree of speed and maneuverability through the water heretofore unseen. This worked by channeling water through gaps in their carapace. Their aft-ends lost their aft-flippers and the glands to produce the caustic-solution.

===Pincerjaw Bladeworem===
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<br />'''Pincerjaw Bladeworem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Blade Worem
<br />-> Spitter Bladeworem]]

Their once-mighty pincers shrank, and now spray caustic fluids into the surrounding water to wound and confuse closely-clustered schools of prey.
From a higher reliance on their acid, they made less and less use of their limbs in hunting. Eventually they atrophied into movable spines along their carapace. Their propulsion was strong enough to launch them a short distance out of the water when hunting.



===Spitter Bladeworem===
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<br />'''Blade Worem'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Jet Slier
<br />-> Common Slizer]]

The Bladeworem's jaw and mandibles fused into a single gaping maw, its acid glands shifted into the interior of its mouth. The primary set of eyes shifted to the side while a new set developed in their place, allowing it a greater field of view for catching sight of prey both above and below. 
The Bladeworem's uppermost blades lost their sheer bony ridge, developing into fins that allowed it to glide briefly above the water. It compensated for the lost by growing more spines and blades. 
Another set of gliding-wings grew towards their aft-ends, and their tough carapace began to loosen into a more flexible array of plating. 


===Common Slizer===
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<br />'''Common Slizer'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span> or <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />Progenitor: Blade Worem
<br />-> Land Slizer
<br />-> awaiting reef slizers]]
The Bladeworem's jaw split into four iron-hard, tooth-filled beaks. The caustic spray begins to regain some of its adhesive qualities, allowing it to bind or weigh-down flying prey before jetting in for the kill.