Doriteverse/Mobini

Within the Doriteverse, mobini are the various non-mobian animals of Mobius. They can take on a variety of different forms and vary in intelligence from brainless to sapient depending on the species.
"Mobini" is not a catch-all term for animals—it only refers to ones which have a mobian counterpart, and it does not exclude sapient species. Humans are considered mobini, but coral are not.
== History ==
Mobini are believed to have originated between 550 and 580 million years ago, as there is trace evidence that many of the earliest bilaterians—the group which all mobini are a part of—had mobian counterparts. This seems to line up with the first arrival of Chaos Energy to the planet, and it's hypothesized that the first true mobini was connected to their mobian counterpart through this event, though the details of how exactly this happened are still unknown.
Mobini evolution directly mirrored the evolution of life on Earth in the real world, with the exception of an additional clade of dinosaurs, Therioraptora, also existing.
== Biology ==
Mobini are diverse, but all of them are multicellular bilateral life-forms with internal body cavities. Common traits include eyes and limbs. They all require oxygen to survive, and a given species will weaken and die out if their mobian counterpart goes extinct. Ones with mineralized skeletons or shells may rarely have access to chaos control, but only highly intelligent species are able to actually use this.
== Sapience ==
On rare occasions, a mobini will evolve mobian-like sapience. This has happened several times throughout history, most famously to the great apes. However, it is very rare for sapient mobini to form civilization on their own due to them usually having short life-spans—a problem that a number of sapient mobini cephalopods in particular are quoted as describing to be a curse.
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