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juniorWoodchuck — Alternative coastal animals by-nc-nd

Published: 2013-05-20 12:38:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 2407; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 8
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Description Three strange creatures from an even stranger alternative earth where humans never evolved into sapient creatures and the oligocene cooling and the ice age never happened. This version of earth looks very different than ours: most of the surface is covered in dense forests and the oxygen level is higher causing insects to grow bigger in size. Most animals that live on land are rather small and are adapted to life in the forests. Odd-toed ungulates never evolved, they still possess up to four toes.
On the picture you can see three animals that inhabit the coasts of this strange world:
-A fishing frogmouth, which uses it’s large bill to catch fish.
The inside of its mouth is covered in spines to hold its slippery prey.
-An anthropophoca, a large aquatic human
-Grebuin, a large penguin-like grebe. It uses its long neck to snatch fish and crustaceans.

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bogatyrkhan [2016-06-19 09:31:11 +0000 UTC]

Ah!the fat one lying on the ground looks exactly the same as I  after working all day long...

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to bogatyrkhan [2016-06-19 14:34:24 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I try to make my drawings relatable

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RedPanda7 [2013-05-21 15:02:12 +0000 UTC]

Excellent ideas indeed! Though I do have to ask a question about the anthropophoca

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to RedPanda7 [2013-05-21 16:09:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
Yes, what's your question?

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RedPanda7 In reply to juniorWoodchuck [2013-05-21 20:45:39 +0000 UTC]

Well, it's how would early humans evolve into an aquatic, seal like species? It just seems odd to me. There was enough food for them on land, and surely the ocean would be more dangerous because the ice age hasn't happened so there'd be more species of carnivorous whales.

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Dragonthunders [2013-05-21 01:14:29 +0000 UTC]

amazing, I love the hominid pinniped, very creative

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to Dragonthunders [2013-05-21 16:09:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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Orionide5 [2013-05-20 23:14:22 +0000 UTC]

If the cooling didn't happen, how did homonids leave the trees behind?

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to Orionide5 [2013-05-21 16:10:49 +0000 UTC]

A species of them started to catch fish (probably in a mangrove forest) and then slowly adapted to an aquatic life.

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TheArchosaurQueen [2013-05-20 14:50:16 +0000 UTC]

Interesting .

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to TheArchosaurQueen [2013-05-20 14:53:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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TheArchosaurQueen In reply to juniorWoodchuck [2013-05-20 15:28:27 +0000 UTC]

Welcome.

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PeteriDish [2013-05-20 14:04:28 +0000 UTC]

great concept, although I am not really a fan of the "posthuman" because it doesn't fit the concept I think. I know it's not a posthuman, but it looks like it. maybe if a more general term than "humanoid" was used, i wouldn't mind, it's a cool-looking primate.

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to PeteriDish [2013-05-20 14:51:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
Yeah, I'm not really happy wirh it either...
At first it was supposed to be some sort of amphibious whale with a head like a risso's dolphin but that looked very stupid so I changed it to this. I'm probably gonna change its nose to something more monkey-like, maybe even like a proboscis monkey.

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PeteriDish In reply to juniorWoodchuck [2013-05-20 16:04:54 +0000 UTC]

that would be cool!

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electreel [2013-05-20 12:59:06 +0000 UTC]

Wow, those are very original concepts!

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juniorWoodchuck In reply to electreel [2013-05-20 14:54:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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