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The official cliche list; What should we try and avoid perhaps?
Topic Started: Jan 21 2011, 12:18 PM (6,365 Views)
Rick Raptor
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Our world will end and Spec world will begin. Sounds like an acceptable deal :D



I think a cliche for alien worlds are hexapods (or has someone already mentioned this?)

I want to see more alien worlds with four-legged animals which still don´t look too earth-like.
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More flightless dsungapterids.
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i wonder why there are no flightless Anurognathids,Dimorphodontids or Rhamphorhynchids..flightless Dimorphodon should be interesting
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For anurognathids and rhamphorhynchids, its largely because there's little evidence for terrestriality in them, although anurognathids did had strong claws (most likely just to climb though) and some scaphognathine rhamphorhynchids seem to have been leaning towards a dimorphodontid like lifestyle. Dimorphodontids themselves, being nearly flightless arboreal predators, would easily produce flightless forms.
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It's probably because the most famous paper on terrestriality in pterosaurs dealt specifically with Azhdarchids
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Rick Raptor
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Jan 24 2011, 09:34 AM
i wonder why there are no flightless Anurognathids,Dimorphodontids or Rhamphorhynchids..flightless Dimorphodon should be interesting
Mark Witton has done a leopard-like flightless Dimorphodont
http://pterosaur-net.blogspot.com/2010/04/actinopatagia-percussion-and-sketchy.html



And here´s a flightless (or at the very most gliding) Dsungaripterid for you :P
http://coelotitan.deviantart.com/art/Predatory-Dsungaripterid-183008160
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Eyeless aliens with strange, sculptured bodies (parroting Barlowe's aesthetic).

Arthropod-like aliens.

Animal-like plants.
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Feb 4 2011, 10:24 AM
Animal-like plants.
And plant-like animals :D
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I don't think plant-like animals have been used that much, mainly cause people don't know what to do with them.
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I've seen them about as much as i've seen normal plants, in my time.
Mainly, it's just so they can move or defend themselves.
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Please can anyone post a link to that Spec that are you talking about?
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thanks
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Jan 21 2011, 12:18 PM
Humanoid aliens
Humanoid aliens are not cliché. Humanoid, human-like/human-looking aliens are, on the other hand.
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