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Martins' non-project art
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This is the place where I'll post my non-spec art, comics and more.

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A young male gorgosaurus libratus, looking for food in the Canadian fern prairie of the late Cretaceous 75 mya.

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A male psittacosaurus sibiricus calling to attract a possible partner.

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A female trinisaura santamartaensis resting under a coniferous bush.
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This is an art topic, not a discussion on competition- whether whoever is right or wrong. Maybe Martin is not like me but I would be very annoyed if I was being derailed in this way with giant otter photos in my thread over trivial issues.
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The Gaiaverse

| Eden | Terra Metropolis | Life of the Sylvan Islands |


Other Spec Evo

| Sheatheria | Serina | The Last Dinosaur

A Wholesome and Good Thing

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But for the interest for fairness, yes, I do like the alien sophonts.
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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Well Phorusrhacos is known to have had them and while many birds don't have visible hand claws, many have hand claws covered by feathers, such as several galloanserans, birds of prey and I think all living ratites (kiwis have the biggest ones in relation to body size).

Source plz. Only Titanis was ever argued to have wing claws.

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Zorcuspine
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JohnFaa
Mar 2 2015, 05:00 PM
Martiitram2
Mar 2 2015, 04:26 PM
Well Phorusrhacos is known to have had them and while many birds don't have visible hand claws, many have hand claws covered by feathers, such as several galloanserans, birds of prey and I think all living ratites (kiwis have the biggest ones in relation to body size).

Source plz. Only Titanis was ever argued to have wing claws.

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Ddin't you pay attention to my comment? I said the SERIEMA + PASSERINES lineage, not birds as whole.

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True, but there isn't a lot to suggest that it in particular redeveloped wing claws, since seriemas and their relatives (falcons, parrots, passerines) are notorious for their loss of wing claws amidst birds, and the hand morphology in these forms if anything further cements this
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Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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As Sheather said, this is an art thread and thus shouldn't be derailed. To tell you the truth, I don't really care who's right or wrong, I just made a drawing. If I'm wrong, just tell my why did most of the South American fauna go extinct after the interchange, etc. Btw, Mesembriornis died out in the late Pliocene. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesembriornis
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We have no clear answers as to why it happened, but we know it wasn't from competition - which, by the way, is a very overrated explanation for extinction, as Darren Naish pointed out multiple times -, as evidenced by multiple factors. There is evidence for asteroid impacts, several climate changes, et cetera. You have to remember that paleontology isn't a cut precision field, otherwise we'd just stop making studies and new discoveries.
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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https://www.patreon.com/Carliro

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As civilizations advance, they feel the need to know more, they want to explore the unknown, they want to explore the space and it's this desire of knowledge that has led various races throughout the universe to create the massive empires that stretch throughout solar systems, and even throughout galaxies. Of course to travel the massive distances from one planet to another or even more you'd need a vehicle, a space vehicle.
Here we can see 2 types of spaceships, each pair belonging to two different races. The large ship on top is a Chronoan Herroware, a group of large ships, ranging in diameter from just 20 m to over 100 m and are used for various purposes, from exploaration, private ownership and even military services. The small disk-like ship under it is a Barryome, an individual kind of ship often used for one person journeys in space, usually not for long distances and most commonly used in the Chronoan military.
Meanwhile the large spaceship in the bottom is a large Deluvian herroware, used for the very same purposes, while the somewhat plane-shaped, smaller ship is a kind of Deluvian Barryome. The thing about Deluvian spaceships and a great deal of their technology is that it's organic, meaning that these spaceships are in fact, genetically modified (GM for short) creatures from the Deluvian homeworld, Deluvis (Deluvians are one of the few alien races to name their race after their planet). Mane Deluvian spaceships have the ability to breed and instead of usual fuel, require food, which since they're genetically modified, can come from various sources, such as light, creatures, even minerals and usual fuel. Deluvian spaceship genes have a relatively low plasticity, so while after several generations of breeding a ship may look a bit different from it's great grandfathers, it's still relatively unchanged and since it has the same functions, there rarely happen any changes that may effect the way the ship does its' job.
Deluvian ships are unlike most Deluvian technology, conscious beings and have are GM to do their job and are often quite friendly creatures. Being so large, they require several brains, most Herrowares having 3, while the smaller Barryomes have only one.

P.S- "Herroware" and "Barryome" are alien words and have not been invented by humans, but belong to a very old Chronoan language that is widely used by other races in the same way some foreign people may use English to communicate.
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So this was just something I did for fun and it's not part of a new project or something like that. The ground beef is a small speculative subterranean bovine roughly the size of an English setter, or a big house cat. It lives in small colonies in the arid plains of the Californian archipelago, roughly 45 million years in the future, having a similar lifestyle to marmots or prairie dogs and digging with their horns.
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Most of us are familiar with Dougal Dixons' plains dweller, a GM posthuman from "Man after man" and this is their descendant, a derived creature with a longer snout, atrophied forelimbs, hoofed hind limbs and a relatively long tail, mostly made of cartilage and fat, while its' base is supported by extra vertebrae.
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I thought the Ground Beef was some tritylodont when I first saw it. Also Ground Beef.

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"you are about to try that on a species that clawed its way to the top of a 4 billion year deep corpse pile of evolution. one that has committed the genocide you are contemplating several times already. they are the pinnacle of intelligence-based survival techniques and outnumber you 7 billion to 1" - humans vs machine
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Ddin't notice that.
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/460637/

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https://www.patreon.com/Carliro

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Soroavisaurus australis was a species of relatively large avisaurid bird from 70 mya in Argentina. Like most avisaurids, it most likely fed on small animals, having a niche similar to modern day raptors.
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So, this is my reconstruction of the newly discovered short necked azhdarchid from Hateg, a relatively small pterosaur, known only from some cervical vertebrae (neck vertebrae), shown to scale with the average human. Here's the paper: http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://darrennaish.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/vremir-et-al-2015-romanian-short-necked-azhdarchid.pdf
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So, these guys are 5 of the 8 living alien civilizations that I've created so far, the other 3 being the Frhnnnqu, which I've shown and 2 other races, which I will hopefully show in the near future.

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1. The Platosapiens, a name given to them by humans since Platosapiens don't communicate vocally, are a relatively new race of alien sophonts, living in a rocky superearth 3 times the size of our planet. Their current technological level is relatively primitive, being similar to that of the late 20th century humans, yet still maintaining connection with other far more advanced alien races, though not a strong one. They evolved from creatures rather similar to Earths' starfish, having a sevenfold radial symmetry (most starfish have a fivefold radial symmetry though) and being carbon-based, but they do have their differences, such as the possession of an elastic, but strong skeleton and a brain, in fact 8 of them. In each limb Platosapiens have a pair of eyes, which function as one. While the larger eye allows them to see, it is the smaller one that gives them color vision and depth perception. They also have large semi-retractable claws, used for digging in their ancestors and also a small tentacle in each limb used for holding food and small object as well as communication.

2. The chronoans have now been revised, but most of the info on them remains the same. They evolved from pack-hunting nomadic predators, which also used to have another pair of limbs, used solely for stabbing prey. That was over 100 mya though and they've since been lost. Unlike the previous version, they lack actual eyes, using instead advanced heat detectors. The 2 long tentacles are in fact part of its' tongue, which with the passing millenia turned into a better manipulator, with only a part of it remaining as an actual tongue.

3. Sophomedusa, that's the name humans have given them, since like the Platosapiens, the Sophomedusa don't communicate vocally, instead using electric signals, similarly to the elephant fish of Earth. They lack eyes, but instead use electroreceptors, similar to those of sharks or platypodes, but far more advanced. Unlike most of their homeworlds' creatures, their lineage is an ancient one, appearing around the same time as multicellular life appeared in their planet. Their most fascinating feature though, is their ability to regenerate, which has allowed some individuals to live for hundreds of thousands of years. They do so, by forming cocoons around themselves and then proceeding to slowly grow a new body, while their memories are slowly transferred to it. Regenerating takes a lot of energy though and thus before doing so, they need to eat a lot. They can also regenerate lost limbs under normal conditions.

4. The sciihu remain some of the most peculiar sophonts, due to their biochemistry and general physic. They're ammonia-based, living in a planet similar to Earth, but with a few differences, such as the extremely low temperatures and the seas, which instead of being made of water, are made of liquid ammonia, covering the planet in vast dark red seas. Sciihus appeared around 11 mya and are part of a lineage of large elephantine "herbivores", originally being up to 7 m tall, but now growing no more than 3.5 m. They lack actual muscles, and instead use gelatinous, movable almost liquid masses. Their anatomy too is rather complicated and will be explained later in the near future.

5. These are the now revised Deluvians, differing in size and slightly in anatomy. They are now far more advanced technologically, being known for their extensive organic technology.

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More info coming soon.
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This is a request I did for Adman and the description below is also by him.



Paleoavitherium (ancient bird beast) was a genus of tapejarid-derived pterosaur that existed on the island continent of Austranesia from the Coniacian stage of the Cretaceous to the middle Eocene epoch.
It was a small creature, only being around 30 centimeters in length (a quarter of which was its head) and 3 kg on average. Unlike their beachcombing ancestors, Paleoavitherium was a stocky pterosaur, with an almost chevrotain-like body shape, and four slender legs which ended in partially webbed paws, and its forelimbs sported small, brightly colored wing fingers, which were used in displays. It had a rather short but flexible neck, which terminated in a large, almost comically large head, not unlike that of the large anseriformes of our timeline, like Gastornis and Dromornis. Like many other forest animals that it coexisted with, Paleoavitherium sported cryptic coloration and patterning, which was usually a coat of short brownish-black pcynofibres, with cream-colored spots near the underside. Males were usually larger than females, and during the breeding season, males would grow small blue wattles on the underside of their beaks. Surprisingly enough, Paleoavitherium did not have a large crest on its head. This would have been cost-effective, as this would get them killed easily by predators. As a result, Paleoavitherium had a small atop its head, which would turn bright scarlet during the breeding season.

Like modern day pterrestrials, Paleoavitherium laid their eggs in communal egg mounds, where the males would take shifts guarding them before they hatched. After the flaplings hatched, the guarding males incorporated the young into their resident herd, where they would be taken care of until they got large enough to found their own herds. In common with its semiaquatic ancestors, Paleavitherium still took to the water when threatened. If a predator, like a large mammal, theropod, or crocodylomorph appeared, they would scatter and jump into the water until the danger was gone. When moving in a heard, Paleoavitherium kept in touch with each other through rapid chirping and crowing sounds. When danger loomed, a repeating screeching noise was usually the signal for the herd to seek shelter.

Paleoavitherium was an omnivore leaning toward herbivory, eating mainly fruits, succulent grass-like plants, and leaves, although it wouldn’t be above chasing down and eating small lizards and sphenodonts. Paleoavitherium is believed to be a partial ectotherm, and this is what helped it to survive until the middle Eocene epoch.
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