bro decided to mess around and find out

@@pocketinfinity6733 Exactly.

I even have the DVD I got in 2012 for 5 dollars.

Same!!!

I have watched the documentary but haven’t read the book yet. I may read some time soon!

I haven't seen anything that really compares, so well thought out and technical but still fun and imaginative.

@@caroline6218 I have the book in PDF if you want me to send it to you

That is really fascinating, I just had a look at it, thanks for sharing!

You mean Barlowe‘s Inferno?

He also wrote God's Demon a book about the fallen angels and there wars

speculative biblical fan-fiction?

I hope curious archive or wendigoon make a video about that someday

i've heard a sequel is in the works or recently came out too

Is their an audio book of the novel?

I’ve never heard of this. Thanks a lot for mentioning it!

I've needed this for my tabletop setting, tyvm

Doesn't look like thos guy responds but does anyone know what inspired the name "barlowe"

Same

I was also inspired by this, I made an alien world with orgasmic creatures where their main purpose is to reach the climax of pleasure.

@@claggor1070 so earth

@@claggor1070 wait, isn't this already a concept from C.M. Kosemen's "All Tomorrows"?

@@claggor1070 what the fuck 😭😭

I have the book and I think the frontal appendages are used for communication

i wonder how they dont sink

@@gibbous_silver they have to keep walking or they will sink

@@gibbous_silver They are also mostly hollow.

@@nakenmil wdym hollow?

Its I believe the biggest Darwin IV creature. But it isn't known wheter it is plant or animal, photosynthesis and all that. Even though some sea slug can photosybthesise.

@@captainalie9264 The Blisterwing is the biggest airborne creature on Darwin IV, but the Emperor Sea Strider remains the biggest creature on the planet (the amoebic sea doesn't count as an animal). I agree, the Blisterwing is very interesting and is only hinted at in the book. It would've been cool to see the Flipsticks mentioned.

I love you videos!

whats the story with the lost sequel

@@revieman1 Wayne Barlowe hinted on his website right under the Expedition categorie of a image of a alien landscape with the sub-title "Expedition II???". Personally can't wait

I KNOW RIGHT! Expedition is such a uncovered speculative evolution project, Waybe Barlowe is literally the Godfather of speculative evolution!

@@captainalie9264 yes. He mentioned it outright somewhere hinting that it could be another planet and he has some art from it. Iirc it’s a terrestrial animal and an aquatic life form. Hopefully it’s not a dead project I’d kill to see it. I’ll link the art in a second

Awesome dude lol

I didn't know the Xenian aliens from Half-Life were in part inspired by the creatures of Darwin IV, even though I watched the documentary when I was a kid, so imagine my surprise when I saw a four armed Xenian Tree show up in this video, stabbing away at passers by as they always do.

Hope you enjoy it!

@@CuriousArchive Darwin IV was the first speculative alien world I came across in late 2012 and the reason I found the fantastic Alex Ries a few months later. Have been his huge fan ever since.

@@CuriousArchive You make really a great video ! The world of Darwin IV is really one of the most know and beloved, popular speculative evolution work in the extraterestrial biologie category (the universe has a solid fandom community even today!). The original book, with his magnificient illustration, and the sci-fi documentary in 3D are as great as he two. I see many time the documentary (never the book badly) but it's was a really interesting one when I was a kid. Is interesting, attractive, deep, so it's enjoyable that you honor that universe like he deserve. Otherwise, Curious Archive, I have a example of another speculative evolution world project you can review in a video, world who is use for the needs of an independant novel by an paleoart author named Keenan Taylors. It's name is Kaimere and use for the "Tales of Kaimere", a fantasy compilation of short stories and novellas, written and illustrated by Keenan Taylor. These adventure stories explore love and loss, revenge, and coming of age, and include elements of thriller, romance, and horror. The synopsis is the following : - "Kaimere is a distant planet much like Earth, but with an ecosystem influenced by waves of life taken from our world and introduced to the native magic. This magic is diverse and chaotic, taking the form of calculating forest spirit Indrakai in Trickster's Gambit, the essence of luck that aids Argunite in Koban's Menagerie, or a malicious demon that hunts the protagonists of Spider's Prey." Globaly it's an fantastical and fantasy world where dinosaurs and evolved mammals of all ages, times and places are mixing together and where there are also magic elements with witches, Demons and people named the "Skin Changers" who are people who can change into an animal as their wishes. But all theses world stand on scientific and credibles explanations like the authors himself described the world in his videos. Here a link to the Keenan Taylors Channel : kzfaq.info (Ps : This commentary, I already published it a first time in the commentary section of the second part video "The Teeming Universe | Alien Biology | Part II", in head of the list just after the author commentary. And since the video was posted, my commentary get at least 50 up positives fingers. So that mean a lot of people who follow your channel (I include) know and appreciate this speculative, interesting and unique universe. This later is unique in this genre and between the others works on fantasy/fantastic because is the first time where all is explain by credible and scientific element. The authors not simplment present brievely and put without anything esle Dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals and current animal with magic creatures like that like it was normal and was always the case but develop and put a tremendous amount of work to go into explaining in detail how and why this situation exists and on what it exists, with presentation of the diverses interactions the differents animals orders wich never meet on earth have. This is enterely what makes the Universe of kaimere stand out compared to all the others where there are harpies, trolls or dragons but which are there like that, just there to be there and serve the plot without further explanation on their origin. And it's really interesting!)

@@ilkku239 Same dude super awesome speculative evolution stuff, quite a "under the radar" subject.

The book is even better dude.

@@captainalie9264 Much better indeed.

The documentary does not even come close to the masterpiece that is "Expedition". Probably the best science-fiction work since the work of Bradbury.

Well the glowing lights might not necessarily be for visibility in the optical sense but communication through infared senses.

Yeah, it's really not speculative biology rather than neat ideas. The main one being that every species looks wildly different. All mammals share the same traits and body plans, as do reptiles, Dinosaurs. Most importantly, all animals share the same body plan. They absolutely do not on Darwin IV, with the exclusion being some of the predators sharing similarities.

Thankyou for the information it sounds quite fun 👁👄👁

And read! It's a great book!

Where can I watch it at? It has been along time since I've seen it, but I enjoy it very much

@@dragontrainerzero alien planet (2005) First thing u see should be Voyage to Darwin IV Click it Why am I write like this? Because I’m tired of rewriting after KZfaq deletes me comments

@@bluesap7318 Thanks

@@captainalie9264Yeah ever since I watched the documentary. I begin to read the expedition and let me tell you it fascinating. Especially the animals in the books are much bigger than the documentary. Especially the emperor sea strider which it’s about 30x bigger than documentary version.

Probably has gripping feet but now that I'm looking at it, it seems to have hooves. Probably a design decision. Considering that Wayne was juggling both the scientific and artistic aspects of the book I think you need to forgive some of his errors. They "no eyes" thing is because the planet was covered in thick fog for very long periods, so that vision as we know it was pretty useless during that time. Animals accordingly developed other senses: apparently there is a pressure-sensitive lateral line system, but not much is known about it. Also stated are the ability to use sonar and infrared. The bioiluminescence thing is explained that the book states that these 'biolights' are 'heat-radiating bioluminous spots that appear quite vivid to infrared sensors'. In effect, this means that the production of light is a side effect of the production of heat.

@@captainalie9264 ah ok, thanks for the explanations

Please please get the book it took me three years to find it but well worth the hunt

It captured my imagination.

By alien, I mean animal minds and biology. Not that extra terrestrials are here on Earth. They’re just watching us jealously from Mars 😂

Daggerwrists are not cannibalistic under normal circumstances, it is mentioned in the book that this species in general views cannibalism as a social abnormality; rare form of hunger usually only exhibited by pregnant individuals. Also, it isn't necessary at all for the adult to die in order to give birth: the dead individual was killed by its group because of its own cannibalistic tendencies, with the caesarean being performed by the surviving parent in order to rescue the infant from the dead parent's body.