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Let's keep things simple two rules.

No giving sentience, This is a no brainer issue.
Let's keep it to beings under the Animilia kingdom. "mutated virus/bacteria" is a common trope.

To start:

Let's modify ants to have lungs.

Most insects are constrained by the amount of oxygen they can acquire through their exoskeleton.

Imagine how big they can get if they didn't have that constraint?

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[-] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I think that's the basic plot to Andromeda.

[-] infinite_ass@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

It took the world a million years before it figured out how to digest cellulose. It used to be like plastic. Just piled up.

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