HOME | DD
Midiaou — Kryotherium
#future #giraffe #scifi
Published: 2015-03-22 01:43:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2358; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 9
Redirect to original
Description
These are a group of giraffe descendants. They include the largest land mammals ever, at 20 feet tall at the shoulder, 32 feet long and almost a 3 tonnes. The only reason they survived the 3010 mass extinction is because giraffes became drastically smaller due to the decrease in acacia populations (pollution, deforestation). They became small almost rodent like creatures just before the extinction die to human experimentation. Millions of years later, their Chalicothere like descendants swam to other continents, or walked. One group became giraffe like, but with shorter front limbs. The others became predators.* the first species doesn't appear until 42 myac (million years after Christ)
Related content
Comments: 10
Nice art, but how exactly would giraffes be able to go down to the size of rodents in only the span of a few centuries?
That kind of drastic size shift would occur over hundreds of millions of years, and it would be impossible on Earth. You would need a terraformed world in order to have these giraffes evolve.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Well, it wasn't necessarily by themselves that this happened. Humans helped along the way. Noticing the small and slow changes, scientists breed some of the giraffes into smaller animals.they released them into the environment to see how they fared. It had worked well and they were released and left there so that they could continue their lives as a whole.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
i like the detail of the texturing and i also like the amount of effort put into the ears of the various heads, they look quite real
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you so much
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
well good job!, and that era is supposed to be long after humans leave earth in the future right, or is more of a fictional era here on the site???
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It's long after humans go "extinct". An asteroid wipes out the majority of the population and other species. A a small group of humans repopulated, but at a certain point stopped. After that they evolved into quadrepeds.more on it later.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Ya it looks really cool, i just looked at the group page. i like the concept and i cant wait to see what the quadrepeds will look like. i remember a couple years ago i used to draw the same type of future species concepts and that eventually got me into exobiology art. you may also want to look at the concepts and ideas of Douglas Dixon, he made a book in the 1980's illustrating animal concepts for when humans left or went extinct. anyways, good luck with the project, if u need anything feel free to ask, i will contiue watching and cant wait to see the group take shape.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you! And also i have read some of Dixon's AFTER MAN. I can say i don't agree with all of his concepts, but eeeh. What can you do. Thanks for the support and welcome to DevArt
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
thanks! and well ya haha a lot of them are pretty crazy, but youve got to give him some credit for pioneering a lot of this genre at a time when not many others were thinking about it. anyways, Thanks for your support as well, it means a lot!!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
