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CONTEXT: In this Universe, the P-T extinction event (otherwise known as the great dying) brought life on earth back to single-celled organisms. Meanwhile, life on the biggest moon of Saturn, Titan, continued evolving past single-celled organisms and started going multicellular. The "Plants": Stipulaepingu giganteae (Giant fat stalks) are the biggest land lifeform on Titan, with the females getting up to 7 meters in height. They are part of the kingdom of Plantae pingues (Fat plants) even though they are more similar to an Earth Animal or Fungi than a plant having a heart, stomach and even a simple brain and nervous system. Feeding: Stipulaepingu giganteae feeds partly by conducting a form of chemosynthesis that uses methane from the atmosphere and oxygen (which is brought up through the roots in the form of water and split into Hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight) to make glucose.…

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