User blog comment:Mectrixctic/Re-writing Puffle article somewhat/@comment-477220-20091017193853

since they are evolving after the present, I think it should be allowed

''Ah. I can rephrase my argument, however. Elements always fall into classes of elements, new or not. Ununoctium, despite having never existed in recorded history, WILL be a noble gas because it falls into the category of noble gases in the periodic table. Chemists may also discover new classes of elements. Likewise, animals always fall into classes or a new, undiscovered class''

Actually I heard that element #118 might be too heavy to be a gas.

You forget that adding new pigments is a superficial, minor change, whereas adding classes and phylums to biology is major.

They're space things. Of course we're going to do a major change. We don't know if they have milk glands or special ear bones, or anything else that might seperate them from a mammal (birds are pretty much reptiles with special internal organs and a beak). Being able to light themselves on fire, telekinesis, and hammerspace might be enough to be put into a separate class.

''I actually read once that life using ammonia as a universal solvent (in palce of water) would view water as a poisonous acid, as it dissolves like one in ammonia solution. Pretty cool, huh?''

Pretty much the same joke with big words and using extremophiles

And if we're taking the original designs into consideration and making them different species of puffles, then the puffles shouldn't be mammals, cuz that'll be impractical to have a mammal with crab claws, 6 legs, or slug-eyes.