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alien anatomy help
Topic Started: Aug 9 2008, 10:39 PM (1,419 Views)
ChumZar
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When I make alien species, I want them to look as alien as possible, but I can only think of four different types of movement wich all exist already on earth: legs(humans, insects), pure muscle(snakes, octopuses, snails), flapping(fish, birds), and propulsion(squids). I also cant think of any other form of body frame other than endoskeleton, exoskeleton, and no skeleton. And also, even though I haven't gotten thinking as deeply about this one as the other two, brain structure, what kinds of brains could exist on other worlds, like ones that are distributed throughout the body, or even inside of another body, or mabe something way out of this world that I can't think of. I'd like some input.
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Canis Lupis
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

Exactly. I loved that series of books. Maybe I'll start a topic about Animorphs.


Back on topic. Try taking this approach: take a creature from Earth and alter it, but more so than "TFIW" did.
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