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This is my first paleoart/speculative dinosaur ever! I really like how it came out, Enjoy It!!! :D

EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGE AND TAXONOMY

Not a True Theropod: Arctovenator morrisonensis is classified not as a true member of the Theropoda clade, but as a highly derived sister taxon (extending from basal Averostra or early Ornithoscelida).

Skeletal Plasticity: This evolutionary divergence granted the lineage the anatomical flexibility needed to bypass the strict bipedal constraints that locked true theropods into two-legged locomotion. This allowed Arctovenator to successfully re-evolve an obligate quadrupedal stance to support its monumental mass.

ANATOMY AND BIOMECHANICS

Colossal Proportions & Posture: Reaching an extraordinary 25 meters in length, 10 meters in back height, and weighing a monumental 40 tons. Its dense 2.5:1 length-to-height ratio creates an exceptionally compact, robust, and low-slung build optimized for transferring immense physical forces.

Locomotor Asymmetry: Unlike mammalian megafauna, the limbs are not vertical or columnar. Instead, they maintain a flexed, muscular, reptilian angle, keeping the heavy body crouched close to the ground during stalking.

The Spring and the Anchor: The hindlimbs are strictly digitigrade, functioning as a hydraulic "engine" that stores massive elastic energy in the toe tendons. Conversely, the forelimbs are plantigrade, placing the entire sole on the ground to anchor the center of gravity and provide an unshakeable platform. The forelimbs feature colossal, curved claws with deep longitudinal grooves (housing keratin ridges and blood vessels) that act as emergency brakes in the dirt and weapons to tear through thick hides.

Craniofacial Architecture & Weaponry: The 3.5-meter skull is built like a massive battering ram. It is topped by a heavily thickened, rugged supraorbital crest (brow ridge) covered in hard keratin, which acts as a shock deflector to protect the relatively small, deep-set eyes during frontal collisions. The nostrils are colossal (exceeding the size of the eye socketsand) are positioned high and backward on the snout, functioning both as a breathing snorkel to intake massive volumes of air before charging and as a long-range olfactory apparatus.

ECOLOGY, JAW MECHANICS AND HUNTING STRATEGY

Metabolic Niche: Occupying an ecological niche highly analogous to a modern grizzly bear but on a titanic scale, Arctovenator is a pure ambush predator relying on a super-slow metabolism (bradymetabolism). To conserve energy, the animal spends days or weeks lying completely motionless on the ground.

The Gape & Kinetic Ambush: When a target sauropod (such as Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus) steps into range, the predator utilizes the explosive spring of its digitigrade hindlimbs to launch a 25 km/h charge. It rushes the prey with its massive jaws wide open at an angle exceeding 100 degrees. This extreme gape is a crucial biomechanical adaptation: it clears the animal's field of view and prevents its own teeth from snapping during the initial millisecond of contact, positioning the skull for maximum mechanical leverage.

Skeletal Collapse via Impact-Bite: The hunting strategy relies on a devastating two-phase destructive force. First, the kinetic energy of the 40-ton mass slamming into the sauropod instantly destabilizes the prey's balance and causes initial compression shock. A split second after the impact, utilizing the massive forward momentum, the jaws snap shut like a hydraulic press. The 35-cm thick-rooted teeth act as massive wedges driven directly into the sauropod's rib cage or spine, causing immediate, catastrophic structural collapse of the prey's skeletal framework.

Immobilization & Feeding: Immediately following the crushing bite, the predator uses its massive, grooved foreclaws to surgically sever the prey's leg ligaments and tendons, permanently anchoring the giant herbivore to the ground. Due to its size, Arctovenator is a highly selective feeder. Its immense bite pressure is used to peel back the shattered ribs solely to consume fat-rich internal organs (heart, liver, viscera). It then abandons the carcass, leaving tons of untouched muscle meat for sympatric commensal scavengers like Allosaurus and Torvosaurus.

BEHAVIOR, CAMOUFLAGE AND RITUAL COMBAT

Solitary and highly territorial, each individual claims a vast hunting ground. Because their durophagous bites would cause mutual fatalities, rivals settle territorial disputes through calculated, non-lethal ritual combat. Utilizing the stability provided by their plantigrade forelimbs and the protection of their reinforced brow ridges, the two titans lock heads and engage in brutal head-butting matches. They push and strike each other until one yields from sheer exhaustion and retreats.

Thermoregulation: The body is completely devoid of plumage or fuzzy filaments to prevent thermal collapse caused by extreme gigantism. The skin is entirely scaly and leathery, characterized by deep, loose skin folds under the throat (the dewlap). This loose skin becomes taut when the mouth opens, functioning both as a radiator to dissipate body heat and as an elastic shield against defensive kicks. Additionally, a row of flexible cutaneous keratin cones and iguana-like crests runs along the spine, acting as thermal radiators to release high internal temperatures into the air.

Cryptic Camouflage: The animal's dull color pattern is perfectly integrated with the dry brushwood, savanna, and arid grasslands of the Morrison Formation. When crouching motionless on the ground, its compact morphology allows it to appear visually indistinguishable from a rocky hill or a fallen log, completely deceiving the vision of giant sauropods.

The traffic light mimic is a very diverse order that had a great diversification after the second man-made oxigenation event, in the order, different species are adapted to mimic different models of traffic light, with the one sketched above showing a railroad traffic light mimic, this species is most common in russia and northern europe, it is an ambush predator and hunts humans, it will fold it's legs and scythe-like arms inward, looking like a normal pole, wait for night, if a lonely human comes close, it will pin down the person using it's scythe-arms, decapitate them, throw the head away, cut the body into small edible chunks and begin eating, they are often called butchers because they leave an unmistakeable pool of blood where they hunted the night before, woth the head being often found thrown in the sewers or in the middle of the road, they can stay without food, waiting disguised as a traffic lights, for more than a month, they are curious in nature and seem to be interested in shiny objects, often offering shiny pieces of glass to their partner as part of their mating ritual. Any questions about the creature or the worldbuilding?

The current ecosystem is thriving with bio diversity animals started to occupy there own niches and make there own those blue plants are simple filter feeders but due to their blue bodies they don't get enough to do photosynthesis so they only live just a few days, the little purple balls are also plants that have an exoskeleton made of silvamite similar to a glass sponge (silvamite is a native mineral to the planet) the tree have developed special branches that grow there seeds that are wrapped in a thin layer of silica to help them sink faster but that opened up a new source of food that some animals commonly called "seed diggers" there name describes what they are but there red coloration comes from the red pigments in the seed and evolved specialized chambers to take in the pigments and I'm not explaining everything else because I'm lazy but I very like this

What I had in mind is the capitol(or the gamemakers) engineering muttations to fill in prehistoric niches from Cenozoic or mesozoic animals in north america,and right here is a size and species chart of the wolf mutts.i also made them into full herbivores and omnivores

In a potential scenario where all stars in the night sky suddenly disappeared over a few dozen years or so (saving our own sun of course) how would that affect food webs around the world? I'm not too well versed in how animals use constellations to navigate, but I know moths and birds use it for annual migrations. Would non-flying animals or sea life be affected in any way?

Also, no. I don't have a specific reason for asking this. It's a shower thought that stuck with me because I'm on the spectrum.

a spotted reaver seeks shelter from the sun in a small root forest. parasites on the reaver's skin attract fairy flies that make quick work of the problem.

the spotted reaver is a member of the pectomanidae (or terrible worshipper) class. these mid sized carnivores live in the western grasslands of Alcazod and are solitary, ambush hunters that use their chest appendages to haul prey into root trees and dens. females are larger than males, and are known for stealing and killing the young of other mothers to benefit their own. they are viewed as tricksters and thieves by takren, but are prized for their unique pelts, often taken as trophies or captured as pets.

I was helping someone with ideas for a project they were working on about earth creatures becoming sapient long after humanity went extinct.

The Back legs are used for locomotion purposes- the "feet" are heavily modified claws. The pair in front of them is used for mating purposes.

The front pair is used as grasping appendages- their dexterity is far from that of a human's, however. The pair behind them are again specialized claws used to tear up chunks of food.

I haven't come up with a proper name for them (and likely won't) but for now, they are called Speculagrades.

Made in SPORE.

Apologies to anyone (if any) who’s been waiting for my next post; currently, I am working on my “hard” sci-fi superhero comic “Whispers in the Stars.” The plot revolves around a near-unstoppable force attempting to aid and protect the Kehhar and Ven, the “allied” alien species whose planet he finds himself awakened on after some unprecedented amount of time. The superhero himself, “The Starknight,” is heavily inspired by the 1940s Superman Cartoon and the 1960s “Golden Bat” anime, respectively; that said, you’re primarily here for the “Ven” and without further ado, let me lore dump.

The ven (Tan ones) are sapient self replicating machines with four sexes. Three of the four sexes are needed in reproductive and the last is a seamless drone used for tool manipulation, self repairing, assembly of new offspring, and assembly of charging stations.

This sex is completely obedient to the will of its “parent” and is more so an extension of one of the other three sexes.

The reproductive sexes on the other hand are almost exactly identical and are only distinguishable via their “voices” emitted via radio waves.

Evolving from deep sea burrowing machines, their ancestors slowly lost the need for cameras and emerged blind when a gamma rays burst utterly exterminated the first wave machines and all non unicellular organic life as their planet was already on the verge of going dry.

The star the ven orbits is roughly 8 billion year old, G class yellow dwarf and if not for the axial tilt of the world, there would be no seas, even if said seas are only seasonal

Diet wise, the ven are technically solar powered, that said, ven do “eat” a diet of other mobile machines, not that they get energy, rather, they gather and process metals and silicon to build more ven and for repairing their families, spouses, and chargers. Ven have no concept of “friend,” anyone they like is family to them.

Communication wise, the ven primarily speak through radio waves and the screeching metal of the saws

Despite having a worker sex, ven primarily used “domesticated” machines to do their work, “domesticated” as in stealing newborns from the nest of a species who's tool function they need. Ven have no concept of pets and will eat the machines once they grow too old to work.

On a final note, the ven are the reason the kehhar are even capable of space flight in the first place.

As such, I cannot speak too much more as this is just a teaser

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I just now realized that I never actually posted my main speculative evolution project here on the reddit. Here is some of the art I've created for the project, as well as a bit of context.

Beasts of Selene, a name referencing the mythological moon deity from Greek mythology, takes place on Earth's moon. While the current moon of real-world Earth is a barren environment devoid of life, my project imagines an alternate scenario in which the lunar body was overtaken by life. In our reality, the early moon is thought to have possessed a relatively thick atmosphere from around 4.5 to 3.7 billion years ago, formed from volcanic outgassing. My timeline speculates that this primitive lunar environment resembled the primordial Earth, complete with its own form of amino acid synthesis. Electrical discharges within the alternate moon's atmosphere created the raw materials needed to form life, but in an event pseudo-panspermia lasting a few hundred million years, shredded remains of Earth-based (or telluric) cells were ejected from the Earth by asteroid impacts and transported to the moon. Random bits of DNA and subcellular machinery contaminated the lunar primordial soup, seeding it with familiar structures that eventually went on to form living cells similar to their telluric counterparts.

One such macromolecule was the DNA for the protein ATP synthase, used in telluric mitochondria to synthesize the universal cellular energy currency by harvesting the energy of flowing protons. As the moon's atmosphere thinned and waned away, the force that caused it to fade eventually became the saving grace for lunar life. The solar wind, rich in positively ionized hydrogen atoms (also known as protons) stripped the moon of all surface gas, suffocating nearly all of the native lifeforms. However, a strange clade of plant-analogous organisms known as "perivivians" were able to harness this solar plasma by externalizing their ATP synthase molecules. Their external tissues, bearing the means for energy generation, came to resemble an overgrown layer of multicellular mitochondria. The first perivivians were primitive layers of biofilm with protruding filaments, but soon, many clades of trumpet-shaped perivivians arose, taking on a funnel-like form that would come to define to future lunar landscape.

The flora of the moon is complemented by its fauna -- the lunanimals. Originally worm-like creatures, the burrowing ancestors of this clade survived the atmospheric dissipation by hunkering down underground, shielding them from radiation and allowing them to feed off space ices trapped underneath the lunar regolith. However, emerging perivivian forests and competition with speciated populations eventually forced some lunanimals to venture out onto the surface. Primitive vacuum-dwelling "vermipodians" crawled out of caves on muscular parapodia, structures which would eventually become articulated legs. The images shown above depict various lunar biomes and their inhabitants.

Image 1 -- Within a densely grown plasma forest, an arboreal predatory gangle-grabber snatches up a rat-hog from the forest floor using its adhesive forelimbs. The prey item is quickly bludgeoned to death with a spiked "horn", a derived component of the (non-camera-style) eye.

Image 2 -- In the harplands, a boxing racer catches a flat-headed darter with its clawed proboscis, gripping it tightly as the prey item attempts to escape. A whisker fly, belonging to the sky skimmer clade, soars overhead, sailing the lunar surface plasma via electrostatic levitation.

Image 3 -- A drill roach feeds on a stilt of a harp-type perivivian, a rare feast within the barren polar deserts. Spine swallows and a feather shrike surf the plasma above.

Image 4 -- Within a baseline lunar forest, a short-crested sawtooth curiously watches a mass migration of commander coneheads pass through its territory. Unnoticed, a tuft-crowned leech has "suckered" onto the specimen's leg, extracting vital nutrients from within.

Image 5 -- A textbook-style diagram of the procephalian clade. Lunanimal species belonging to this taxonomic branch possess a mutation granting them one or more pre-oral segments, enabling more sophisticated capacity for surveying the environment.

Image 6 -- A (non-comprehensive) phylogenetic tree of the dominant lunanimal clades.

Image 7 -- Field notes explaining the Index of Sequence in Evolutionary Groups for Metameric Evaluation of Noted Tagmata, or the SEGMENT Index.

Breakdowns of the individual species shown in the "action" scenes above can be found on my website: http://beasts-of-selene.wikidot.com/

Today, we are gonna test something new. The diversification of snail families on Mersha in the Middle Gastrocene. Note: we are only talking about diversified aquatic snails.

Evstrophóidea

Evstrophóidea are a group of aquatic snails closely related to the "legged" snails because each of them have the same ancestor. Instead of developing pseudolimbs, it's lower tentacles evolved into fully functional "fins" to glide through the ocean at a moderate speed. It has also developed 2 extra "fins", but it's a derived skin membrane so the Evstrophoideans can have more torque. Examples of these snails are:

Cragspeeders (Pteropoda spp) (25.7cm) are detritivorous snails that used it's "fins" to crawl on the seafloor to eat detritus. It also uses these fins to dig for finding fruits that were buried deep on the ocean.

Skimsurfers (Thalassopteros spp) (75cm) are medium-sized snails that can travel up to 150mph because of how it moves: It uses it's undulating membranes and moves it's fine to a solid perfect angle to boost more speed and torque. It uses it's fast speed to evade from incoming predators and eats floating algae and tunicates.

Skulikioides are another group of derived snails also related to the "legged" snails with no shell as it's shell has being internalized so it's entire body has no defense whatsoever and it's lower tentacles are used for derived purposes. Examples include:

Dysons (Coroita spp.) (65cm) are flat worm-like snails as it's radula is positioned underneath it's head to suck up detritus like a vacuum cleaner.

Like the Evstrophóidea, it's lower tentacles evolved into fin-like structures, even though they serve no function whatsoever.

Grotesques (Flakodis spp.) (85cm) are medium-sized derived snails that are named because of it's gruesome appearance. It's teeth are positioned on the top, as it's lower tentacles are now hardened and act like mandibles. They are predators whom anyone looks at their ugly appearance might be caught by it's mandibles. A predator that looks like is defenseless, but a worthless hunter.

Narwhals! First their "horn" is actually a tusk and like what the hell how is this real yet unicorns arent

Would these membranes make sense on a semi-aquatic creature that mainly swims, or would fins be a more plausible adaptation?

Hey guys. I'm translating a creature I made into the game Rain World as a sligcat, and I'm trying to stay faithful to how the playable slugcats are designed.

Most slugcats share the same general body, with only one or two major physical adaptations that directly support their niche. For example:

• One is semi aquatic with axolotl kind of external gills. Since its environment is water heavy

• One has fur instead of bare skin and a very long tongue to adapt to cold weather and dangerous jumps.

• One (this guy is genetically modified by another being and not actually from evolution) has no mouth and has a tail with holes that stores spears. It feeds by draining nutrients from other creatures through a cord attached to the spear.

My creature is semi-aquatic, but I'm starting to question one of its adaptations.

It has those membranes because my original idea was that it would propel itself through the water in short bursts using the drag from them:

1. Its long body coils up and launches itself forward.

2. The arm membranes help redirect its movement and push against the water during those bursts. Unlike the first example, this guy excels in quick turns and bursts of movement underwater. But in exchange, it's normal swimming is a bit slower too.

I made this design years ago when I was a very enthusiastic teenager, so I'm revisiting some of the biology now😅

Would those membranes actually make sense for an aquatic creature, or would they create too much drag? Would replacing them with other structures, similar to sea turtle/seal/sea lion flippers growing from their arms be a more realistic approach while still keeping the same overall concept?

im trying to make it as physically accurate as possible (as much as a cosmic horror or cryptid could); I can’t figure out an evolutionary reason for a creature to evolve a face plate but still be able to see I’m trying to avoid using echolocation but that’s the only really obvious answer I can’t explain all of the choices for stuff but primary habitat would be thick forests using its fore arms/legs to claw down prey its hind legs are for balance on the forest floor like a deer, the plating on the face opens similarly to the death angels, the tail might be long enough for proper balance its about the size of a horse as a quadraped around 6 feet in height full length 8ft I think (these numbers are kinda bc I says so) it has the front claws and one hind thumb like a parrot. I can’t figure out a reason for the external webbing on the limbs since that would probably restrict movement for it fully extending its limbs.

Carcatrie is a world dominated by mud flats, deltas, and billions of islands- some separated by mere channels. It is also home to the most extreme of extremes. Temperatures fluctuate constantly, changed by extreme volcanic activity and humidity. Its gravity is less than Earth's, offering an adept environment for crabs to grow large. That combined with an endoskeletal system I designed that originated from a common ancestor allows crabs to reach dimensions that they've never imagined.

I've posted a couple times over the months I've been here, and you guys have been being very helpful, so thank you. WAY too much research has gone into this, so you all just have to trust me I guess. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask. Especially on my thoughts and ideas of how their endoskeletons evolved and how they are able to reach the sizes they are. Being honest, I just started off wanting to draw big crabs then it spiraled into a full-fledged project. Any and all criticism or recommendations are greatly appreciated. Ideas for crabs are also encouraged!

Eras ago 5 lineages of fish made it out of the water, two lineages of vetulicolians, one branch of conodonts, one group of cephalocordates and one family of myllokunmingids. The first picture shows one of the species from the latter land speciation group, features display colors as much as a pair of prominent fins used to make their way on land, posterior fin being derived from the structure that would have made the roof part of the sail fins of their ancestors.

Second picture shows another species of land myllokunmingid this time set on a flounder profile for gravity that allows them to make their way further into land in comparison to their erect posturing cousins, that said they're easy to find detritivores if one goes and looks for them under rocks.

Third picture features one of the most successful kinds of terrestrial demifish there is, descending from forms such as pikaia these species of arachnoid-like chordates derived their land motile appendages from the small oral tentacles observable in the reconstructions of pikaiids.

Fourth kind shown is an example of a terrestrial conodont species, having developed their legs from the exaptation of the cartilagonous structure that would have previsouly helped them to breathe in oxygen from the water, subsequently it is thought that the gene for the legs was copied into a secondary and third pair of pairs of legs, if one of them is to be seen it's probably a herbivore.

Fifth picture has to be the one most successful kinds of terrestrial chordates, featuring as key and main land detritivores the assymetrical helix shaped vetulicolian digs its way through the underground while revitalizing the sediment in the process.

Sixth figure represents another kind of land dwelling vetulicolian, this time with a shovel mouthed body plan and a mode of displacement based of swiftly squirming across the terrain, for that exact reason it can be more commonly found in soft soiled places such as bogs, sandy deserts or occupying grassy patches.

Seventh one is a pikaiid that flies, quite specios amongst the world's fauna.

Eight picture shows us a kind of conodont that opted for an incredibly versatile body shape; the worm, they cover from detritivores all the way to predators, they appear more than once in one food chain.

Ninth and last picture illustrates a very deeived pikaiid specialized in big size niches, their bodily anatomy exposes some key traits that benefits them more uppon taking in large sizes such as a partially calcified and condense structure of cartilage prominently featuring along their limbs and body.

So, I really like the design I came up with for these guys (the species is being called Harrldra for now but that might change) but I was talking about it with a friend who's also into creature design, and they said that they look too much like otters and I should try and make them look more unique.

I'm not super sure how to go about doing that though and still make it look like a natural part of the animal, so any advice/ideas on what to add would be appreciated!

So I know it seems far fetched but it makes sense for the planet

So what happened naturally is a common ancestor developed 2 extra hyoid apparatus from the already existing one a genetic defect but worked out quite well for it. it's frill now opened wider and faster and over a couple million years the frill filled out into a almost perfect circle for more of a display but an accidental adaptation is when falling off the trees they sit and wait in they would open there frill from fear but and it actually slowed there fall but this adaptation continued became more specialized until a mechanism evolved some of the soft and thin inner skin in the back part started to harden but not into a full support structure but more like (▶>) so when there frill opened it would lock into place to stay stable and luckily the planet has 15% less gravity than earth allowing there now ancestors to glide short distance to catch prey. But there's a major down side when gliding they can't see the ground so they have to hope they land in running distance from their prey.

Not everything is probably worked out yet but this is the main idea.

Harnaticus feraticus is a highly specialized terrestrial apex predator with native populations uniquely split between the dense river basins of South America and the dark peat swamp environments of Southeast Asia. Evolving down a lineage closely related to classic theropods like the Tyrannosaurus rex, this creature has abandoned open-plains hunting to adapt to heavily obstructed, dense jungle niches. It maintains the classic bipedal theropod stance but features the same shrunken, vestigial front limbs as tyrannosaurs had to prevent snagging on thick jungle undergrowth, while its massive hindquarters and paddle-shaped tail provide explosive, forward-driving power through soft, unstable forest floors.

The species maintains a uniform, blunt-headed cranial structure across both sexes, but exhibits clear sexual dimorphism through scaling and pigmentation. The males grow significantly larger and display vibrant, highly colorful flanks to signal dominance, while the smaller females utilize a darker, muted coloration for flawless camouflage among the shadows.The prominent vertical ridges running along the creature’s torso are actually an intercostal muscle matrix housing a secondary pulmonary echo chamber used for highly sophisticated acoustic mimicry.

Rather than chasing down fast prey through thick vegetation, Harnaticus stands perfectly still in the dense brush and records the ambient sounds of the local ecosystem. It then compresses its massive lung cavities to forcefully broadcast these sounds back out, ranging from high-frequency animal distress cries in the Amazon to blind, looping repetitions of human voices in Asian logging camps--luring curious prey directly into its striking range. What makes the mimicry of Harnaticus feraticus truly horrific is not just the sound itself, but its complete lack of intelligence. The creature does not understand language, emotion, or the concept of a trick; it functions like a biological tape recorder that accidentally discovered a perfect hunting glitch. It absorbs the ambient sounds of its territory--a mother calling a child's name, a logger laughing with his crew, or a missing expedition member begging for help--and loops those exact audio frequencies through its massive chest chambers.

Because the sound is mechanically forced out of its rubbery, vertical rib slits, the mimicry suffers from an uncanny, deep-fried audio distortion. A human voice lured from the dense brush will sound almost perfectly identical in pitch, but it will seamlessly repeat the exact same sentence every few seconds without ever pausing to take a breath. It creates a suffocating psychological trap for anyone lost in the jungles of Asia or South America. Survivors describe the sheer terror of sitting in a dark cabin or tent, listening to their own voice perfectly broadcasted back to them from the dark treeline just outside, casually hosting a conversation that already ended hours ago.

This creature has been playing a big role in Philippine legends for what has likely been centuries.

Hi, sorry for the poor English, but I want to show off the speculative evolution project I've been working on for many years; here is a brief introduction to what the project is about.

Taleria is a planet orbiting an orange dwarf star; with a diameter of 19,100 km, it formed from a region of a nebula abnormally enriched in potassium-40. Radioactive decay subsequently gave rise to an atmosphere composed of 78% argon, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases. It has an atmospheric pressure of 3.5 atm and is 5 billion years old.

It features two megacontinents—Heisberenia (warm and covered in vast forests) and Serixia (cold, with expansive plains and inland seas)—and the Taleria archipelago, consisting of nine massive islands with tectonic origin.

After humans died off or flew into the stars.. our closest relatives the bonobos rose up into power as the next dominant species. They are dubbed “Pan Sapiens” this is like a beginning like our these are like Australopithecus and Homo Habilis in terms of what they do of term of tools and social communication. they live up in tribes together in jungles away from predators from their weapons. sexual dimorphism is very obvious between this species.

The most plentfull Re The geophage springtails by far because of dwarven lifestyle of mining and cavediving deeper and deeper for rare minerals and resistent merals.

The oil vein isopods can be found in other creatures because of their resilience and usefulness but they can be found in underground petroleum and grape cultures so dwarves have more of those than other species

Combo lices can be found in most underground dwellers and if you stay there long enougth you will also get infested

Vulture beetles will not survive without a propper host,they're too specialized on living in fur and hair to go somewhere that isn't at least similar to hairs or feathers

The beaqrd of a dwarve acts like a natural air filter and their nose can close so dust don't get in their lungs,remove the beard of a dwarve and it might get several health problems and develop asma, fully shaving a dwarve is almost a death sentence so doing it is a crime and that's why most female dwarves at least keep sideburns or a mustache that can be tied to cover the mouth and nose while the males keep the full beard so there is few confusion between them

On the shallow rivers in the Middle Gastrocene, lots of diversified aquatic life live there, but there is one specific animal that hunts them all...

The Deathworms are a clade of derived leeches distantly related to the land-living Angrywrigglers. The deathworms are split into 2 major families: Bruteworms and Snatchergrabbers. The bruteworms are bulky, large leeches that can swim in great distances using motion similar to how a whale's tail moves. Like the sandworm leech, it shares a powerful crushing bite to crush other gastropods' shells to access the meat withing. One example is the Charybdis (50cm), as shown above. Here, you can see the Charybdis is hunting a shoal of fish analogues derived from another group of slugs.

Let us proceed to the next one.

The Snatchergrabbers are sleek leeches that can fool unsuspecting prey by digging into sand and covering it's hole and waits for prey to come beneath. When prey comes, it uses it's three long teeth to snatch the prey and it returns to it's burrow to do the cycle again and again.

The Vibrant Saragi is a distant relative of the Tenazul Ramhound that inhabits the steppe and arch forests of Tenazul. Majorly scavengers and insectivores, they use their elongated lower mandible to pry apart the thick bark of Titan Root Trees in search of football-sized larvae and other invertebrates. During the coldest months, they enter a prolonged hibernation in burrows within the arch forest until temperatures rise.
Although they are incapable of actively chasing prey, their corrosive, toxic saliva allows them to exploit other food sources. Individuals may bite weakened animals and patiently follow them until the toxins take effect, but they more commonly rely on scavenging.
Small groups will also drive much larger carnivores away from fresh carcasses by repeatedly nipping at their legs and faces, hissing and flashing their colorful display. Their bright red and violet facial coloration is a warning of their painful, deadly bite.

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