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juniorWoodchuck — Far future posthuman
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Published: 2015-08-09 14:49:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 5527; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 13
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Wonderful! Amaizing! So many questions, so few answers. At first I imagined this creature to be searching for clams under the mud on the beach with its smell like grizzly bears. Then I realized I don't even know where is mouth of this creature(near the nostrils?). Is it falcultative or obligate bipedal? What is the purpose of these little spikes on its stomach? What is the purpose of this venus-flytrap-like-crest on its head? Is it on the ground or on the sea bottom? Anyway, I love it.
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Thank you very much, I’m glad you like it!
You know, I gotta be honest that I actually never really figured out where its mouth is either... Initially, the head design was for something else that actually used its nose to filter airborne plankton and I just never changed the design because I liked it too much. So perhaps this guy too has a sort of fused mouth and nose-situation going on...
It always moves bipedally though as the arms have turned into sensory appendages more akin to feelers. It uses them to feel its surroundings by lightly tapping it. Both the stomach-bristles as well as those cephalic bulges were intended to be sensory organs as well. Over the course of their evolution, this branch of humanity had lost their eyes due to living underground, instead evolving other, new organs to sense their world.
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Thank you so much for this explanation.
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Nope, those are the nostrils
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I see external gyroscopic organs... Barlowe, much? 
I can just imagine this creature lumbering quietly through the tranquil morning mists.... then screaming WOOOOB WOOOOOB WOOOOB and waving it's arms around like a lunatic. XD
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Just nature to be honest… ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halteres)
While your description is rather spot-on, they rather make honking and huffing noises
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Thank you very much!
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Diese Zukunft hat tatsächlich einiges mit Darwin IV gemeinsam... Zum einen sind die Weltmeere grösstenteils ausgetrocknet, was auch generell zu trockeneren Klimabedingungen führte und zum anderen sind Augen bei fast allen Arten durch neue, bessere Wahrnehmungsorgane ersetzt worden
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Very interesting, what function do those fly swat shaped organs serve? And what are they derived from?
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They are some sort of balance organs as well as a way for them to communicate with one another… they evolved from the inner ear as well as the split lower jaw. Their ears have become highly rudimentary and they rely heavily on their sense of smell as well as some sort of electroreception unlike anything we know of today
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Interesting...
So I'm guessing that some sort of genetic modification was involved in it's creation?
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Yes, there was genetic modification, mutation, a bit more genetic modification and billions of years of evolution involved
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Nope, only the foremost creature is a posthuman
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Thank you very much!
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Ah yes… good ol’ Pete Wiseman
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Thank you very much!
Omnivorous to be exact… though it’s diet consists mostly of meat
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