Talk:Lost River/@comment-26182984-20170829133136/@comment-34888795-20180306043509

my best guess/theory is the volcanic crater used to actually be a volcanic island, and as it sunk, things evolved to the sea, like the reverse of how sea creatures evolved to land on earth. floaters evolved from ameoboids, wich themselves evolved from a land-based ameoba species. the floaters kept some islands afloat, the biggest one floating away and the smaller ones falling below and being kept in place by the crater they made by keeping pieces of land in place as the rest sunk, wich was accentuated by erosion. most land creatures evolved for the sea, including an alpha-reptile that became the dragon and emporor leviathans, the hoverfish, and lava lizards, and an alpha crawler to become the shuttlebugs, both crawlers, and the sea treaders. the island flora didn't evolve from sea flora, sea flora evolved from island flora. the pink caps became the acid and deep shrooms, the unnamed red-tipped fern-like plants became cave bushes, and those became most other flora. fern palms also evolved to blue palms. this seems to make the most sense, as the volcano was dormant for a long time and that's more then enough for life to evolve, and then the volcano to sink.