The Skies of Anu | Alien Biology

I love how this actually depicts alien worlds as rich ecosystems rather than a planet with only one species that just builds spaceships and speaks a single language

Alien creatures are always really interesting due to how endless the possibilities are.

I just cannot stop hearing "flamin' asses".

A project that i would like to see here in the Channel is "Serina: a natural history of a world of birds"

Low gravity and/or higher density atmosphere would make for a lot of floaty, flighty things... I mean, at some point the air works just like our water. Life in the water mite not be much different than on earth, when your body is completely supported by the water, how much you weigh doesn't really matter.

I'm really loving all of these speculative biology videos. I'd love to see you cover Serina: A Natural History of the World of Birds. Its a great project detailing an experiment where humans put canaries, guppies, some bugs and plants onto a planet to see where they go from there

Imagine how tall a tree on a low gravity planet could grow!

Holy shit. Just… oh my stars. First Alltomorrows, then the birrin, and now my friend Sam’s Anu project? I’ve been a part of the speculative biology community since I first joined the internet in 2014, and we’ve always been a really small and niche corner of the web. I never, EVER thought I would see the day when professional-grade YouTube video essays brought these projects created by passionate, dedicated people (that I KNOW!!) to a new audience of *thousands*. Your videos have quite literally brought about a renaissance of specbio as a genre and an art form. Thank you for this.

When you think about how HUGE and vast the universe is, chances are a world like this actually exist out there.

Lopsider: life ain't so bad...we got pets, shelter, and in a few million years, we'll evolve.

I absolutely love this idea, because we as humans are always reminded of how weak we are compared to many other animals. every time you take a hike in the mountains, you pray that a mountain lion or a bear wouldn't see you as an easy meal. So just imagine being able to absolutely body a animal three times the size of an elephant.

I've seen the works of them before in DeviantArt but never have the time to fully explore it just like i did with Birrin, Snaiad, Biblaridion's Alien Planet or Illion (Which i highly recommend you should cover next, it's one of the more fully developed speculative alien project out there, complete with stories of manned exploration of the planet). Thank you for covering this project.

I love this, speculative zoology is so intriguing!

I feel like this concept really isn't explored enough in sci-fi settings, you'd think a planet with an entirely different set of rules would be a free real estate for somebody writing a story about aliens. A concept I always thought would be super interesting was a planet where the gravity is so low and the mountains are so high that some points reach out into the upper atmosphere, and creatures living on them evolved to jet out into space and become an entirely different form of life

So if Anu has a solar system, the name of this solar system is Anu's solar system?

Xenobiology, speculative evolution, whatever you wanna call it, is such a cool concept. Alien concepts especially. Snaiad, this, Birrin, all great examples of alien projects. I just love the subject so much, it's so cool

This is what we like to call cool.

Wouldn’t lower gravity also mean decreased sea level density and therefore a proportional increase in energy needed for flight?

Random question, what would the conditions of a planet need to be for a creature as big as Godzilla to exist?

My problem with speculative works is 9/10 times the artist always gives everything 4 part jaws, and 6 legs.