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Something I forgot about for years
Topic Started: Jan 14 2010, 02:14 PM (428 Views)
KayKay
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This has been sitting at the back of a cluttered drawer for a couple of years. It's a bit spontaneous, there wasn't any planning for this. As a result, they are a bit, maybe even very unrealistic. Really no story behind them.

Here's the drawing, in a link due to the size: http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g278/Magdaw/Alien-Sea-Giants.jpg

Alien sea creatures, as big as whales.
Edited by KayKay, Jan 14 2010, 02:15 PM.
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Amazing ! They look like something Wayne Barlowe would call his own !



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Wow. Have you any theories as to how they feed, and breathe, and reproduce?
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Oh, I have no idea, any guesses?

I think the tiny dangly brushy bits between the scales on its sides that look like stumpy tubes are supposed to breathe. I'm not sure, it was a long time ago when I drew this. I imagine they belong to the same phylum, having a similar basic body plan but still appearing rather different to one another.

They seem to be a mixture of bilateral and trilateral, bilateral near the head and trilateral behind the head shield. Since both species lack any manipulatory organs (the limbs appear too fin-like) I assume the mouth is situated at the head of the body, perhaps not visible on the left-hand carnivore at this angle, but certainly visible on the right-hand herbivore.

Reproduction... I dunno, I imagine spawning like fish, maybe able to carry their spawn in the sheltered area between each limb close to its body? If they are endotherms, this could help keep the eggs warm. Besides, I don't really like the idea of the waste coming out of between the limbs, I can imagine that getting very unhygienic unless it was excreted away from the body through a tube.
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Are you plausible?

Since the sky (or sea, if you're into puns) is the limit when it comes to large aquatic life, I don't think it's that unrealistic.

The two creatures may be in the same phylum or maybe even class, but they're different enough that I don't think they're in the same genus or maybe as far as different families. The one on the left seems more like a predator, with blade-like projections that might also serve to steer in water.

The one on the right has a structure on its front that seems like a mouth to me. It might be a predator as well, but it doesn't look like as much of a 'chaser' as the other one. Perhaps it uses its mouth parts to pull apart coral structures to get at prey underneath.
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Was that dot on their armored sides an eye or something else? I couldn't tell.
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I don't know, it could be. They do need some kind of sensory organs, they don't have any from what I can tell apart from those almost invisible eyes.
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Smell or chemical detection is very useful in all water.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Are you plausible?

The cutaneous electrosensors present in sharks would also be a useful sense for these critters.
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