Mar
27th
2018
On ponies, hippogriffs, seaponies, hippos, and whales · 8:08pm Mar 27th, 2018
Fluttershy’s use of a phylogenetic tree in her class has caused some comment. This made me decide to write something that has been in my head ever since everyone started talking about seaponies. This is now a new short story in my Codex Equestria anthology:
In which Princess Skystar and Pinkie Pie discuss the evolutionary story which inspired the hippogriffs to try their luck as seaponies.
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Pineta · 593 views
· Story: C̶o̶d̶a̶ Codex Equestria: Scientific Pony T̶a̶i̶l̶s̶ Tales
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#Evolutionary biology
#seaponies
#hippogriffs
#marine mammals
Even more fun when you try doing the phylogenetic tree equivalent of Pokemon, and you ahve to add in shelly and Sheldons branches. And Boulders.
just, which egg group does Boulder belong to?
I really liked the confirmation in that episode that Fluttershy's (possibly self-) education is as a biologist. There have been hints all through the series that Fluttershy is a lot more intellectual than she looks. One of these is that she apparently owns a lot of books about zoology.
She doesn't merely love animals, she also loves understanding about their nature and evolution.
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I've actually tried to do this. Mineral egg group pokemon in my version usually split off prior to the Ditto, which serves as the primordial ooze for most other pokemon. Also most amorphous egg groups, they tend to be "spirits". Exceptions do exist, but... tis rare.
Oh, thought she was a Fog Specialist
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I like that you commented about the phylogenetic tree. You came up with an explanation of the chimeric creatures fitting into en evolutionary framework. The base organism of ponies is equine, but they have 3 phenotypes, so they have genetic contributions from archosaurs for the wings of pegasi and maybe other organisms for the characteristics of the Earthen and unicorns too.