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Due to the global warming all ice has melted long ago, the sea level has risen, the oceans have flooded the coastal areas of the continents and turned them into shallow shelf seas.Depicted animals from top to bottom / left to right:
-This small shark is one of the very last true fish. They hunt by burying themselves in the seabed and waiting for prey to swim/crawl by. The stomach can be everted from the shark's mouth to engulf and digest food.
-A small snail-like octopus. It lives mostly on land but returns to the ocean to lay eggs.
-This rather small creature is in fact a sea cucumber. It evolved four boneless fins to swim and uses a large array of retractable tentacles to hunt prey.
-A sessile starfish that turned upside down. Five primitive eyes are constantly on the look-out for potential prey while its stomach-tentacles snatch at small animals.
-A snake-like squid that inhabits the coastal marshlands.
-A swimming squid-like starfish
-The foot of these bivalves turned into a muscular tail which can propel fairly fast.
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Your snail- like octopus sort of resembles the Swampus from TFIW, but more sense- making
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1) would i be able to use the "type" versions (by you) of these creatures for my future project and give the credit to you?
2) Love the designs!
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Sorry, but these creatures will be rather important in an upcoming project so Iβd rather have them for myself
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Most of them died out... I will explore that topic more detailed in my new future biology project (that has not yet really started)
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While not animals I'm particularly drawn to usually you do amazing things with echinoderms.
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Thank you very much!
There will be some more futuristic echinoderms in my new project
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I cant wait till I see the others.I'm making 5 similar future projects(12,50,100,200,600 million years in the future).I'll show some of my concepts.12 mya:large bull from north europe (5 tons),50 mya: south american groundsloth like racoons(50kg-9tons),100 mya:ungulates descended from shrews in eurasia,bear,pig,badger,hyena,creodont like hedgehogs,200 mya:a world ruled by reptiles similar to squamozoic project,600 mya:all fish are sharks exept for a few freshwater ones,squids rule the seas the only tetrapods are reptiles and 7 amphibians.
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Thanks a lot!
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Your welcome.
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Wow, those are some incredibly original concepts!
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Thank you very much!
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AMAZING !! This world needs to be further developed ^.^
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Thanks a lot! I'm actually working quite a lot on this world; I've already got about 90 pages filled with sketches for different future animals.
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I think you're gonna have to show us those XD
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I will eventually
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I wonder, though, how does the serpentine squid move? Are they also moving "backwards" like their aquatic ancestors?
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Obwohl mir die Idee gut gefΓ€llt, denke ich doch eher, dass sie sich mit dem Kopf voran bewegen. Ihre Tentakeln kΓΆnnen sie dabei eng aneinander legen, damit sie nicht in den Weg geraten.
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Mit haben es vor allem die Muscheln angetan, aber der Schlangen-tintenfisch ist auch sehr schΓΆn
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Thank you very much!
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