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winged humanoids; how they can be
Topic Started: Jul 7 2011, 05:17 PM (708 Views)
trex841
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i found this on deviant art, thought you'd like to see it.

1, 2, 3, 4.
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Well, there's always that pesky problem that no tetrapod (I assume we're dealing with tetrapods here--if our winged humanoids are aliens it's another story) has ever evolved a functional additional pair of limbs, nor have fur and feather ever occurred together on the same animal. Assuming the humanoid is roughly the height and weight of an adult human, and even allowing for airsacs and hollow bones, the wings would still have to be at least Quetzalcoatlus-sized to work.
A better question is, could a winged humanoid evolve in our timeline, and what would its ancestor be?
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Well, there's always that pesky problem that no tetrapod (I assume we're dealing with tetrapods here--if our winged humanoids are aliens it's another story) has ever evolved a functional additional pair of limbs, nor have fur and feather ever occurred together on the same animal. Assuming the humanoid is roughly the height and weight of an adult human, and even allowing for airsacs and hollow bones, the wings would still have to be at least Quetzalcoatlus-sized to work.
A better question is, could a winged humanoid evolve in our timeline, and what would its ancestor be?
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Does a winged humanoid even make sense? Maybe there are reasons why a humanoid bauplan is not suited to flight.
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i actually think that this was meant to show what a person with wings would look like, for drawing reasons, but it could be used to show what a gm'ed 'angel' would look like.
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A winged humanoid should be four limbed; the forelimbs would be the wings and the arms at the same time
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a six limbed tetrapod by definition doesn't make sense.
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We don't have the muscle, structural integrity, heart rate, or blood supply to power wings. :)
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?

Charybdans are erect bipeds with wings...
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Rumbo a la Victoria

Note that mammals in particular cannot just develop new bones. The coccyx survives in humans, and nearly all mammals have seven neck vertebrae.

Mammals have evolved in such a way that cell proliferation is linked to axial structure. More bones means cancers, except in animals with a very slow metabolism like sloths (with less than seven neck vertebrae).

Alien humanoids could have wings i suppose, but not ones interanlly very similiar to us.
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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If you tried to make a winged humanoid, you'd probably end up with something like a bat. A bipedal one, at least. (Hee hee! :D He'd have so much trouble walking! They have such tiny little legs!)
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Well birds dont have a problem walking, so why would a winged biped?
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I just mean bats. Their legs can't move very much due to the wing membrane. And birds hold their spines horizontally. An animal which holds its spine vertically would have much more trouble.
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