>>5423066The delicate Rad Blooms of the lower ice sheets have finally evolved sufficient pressure resistance to sink to the narrow band ecosystem. A simple multicellular organism adapted to frequent icequakes, it relies on many scattered, semi-adhesive offshoots to avoid being flung when the ice it’s attached to breaks off. Here, there’s less radiation to subsist on and the warmer temperatures make its slow metabolism redundant but the more stable terrain and gentler tides allow it to carve out a niche of its own, nonetheless. The herbivore population is denser but much less well-suited to handle the Rad Bloom’s radioactivity, somewhat balancing its rate of consumption. The Rad Blooms have robbed the Flounder Feeder of its radiotrophic exclusivity within the narrow band ecosystem but radiation is abundant all throughout the ocean and their population isn’t significantly impacted one way or another.
>How should the Flounder Feeders evolve?>4/4 