User blog comment:Mectrixctic/Re-writing Puffle article somewhat/@comment-477220-20091017204335

''As in microevolution? Obviously that has to be allowed, how else would animals adapt? ''

Technically it would be macroevolution, since the asteroid would only contain genetic material or very primitive extremophile organisms, although it might be possible that other animals fell into the glop (or the other way around) and dissolved, having their DNA be a part of whatever was going on there. Since the impace would probably cause some radiation, the creatures that would appear would mutate fast in a different fashion, since their bodies work differently, allowing them to become puffles in a relatively short period of time.

''And we can't take the original designs into consideration -- they're not canon. ''

Neither is Antarctica, but we (actually you) made a country out of that. I actually made the Behemoth based on the brown guy.

And reptiles are somewhat related to mammals, but I think that a new class (and even phylum) would be appropriate, since we're dealing with something completely new. I'm pretty sure we should say that they're animals because they don't make their own food or pre-digest it.

I guess that we should start translating words into Latin now.

Anyways, by now, I think we should take the part of Puffles having pouches out, because it makes them seem less symmetrical.