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Osmatar β Spectember: Probosciditherium
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Published: 2020-12-05 14:01:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 43635; Favourites: 593; Downloads: 40
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People were very vocal about it, so against previous plans #Spectember2020 Β returned to the Sesamozoic with another misunderstood creature. Despite having passing similarity with mammoths, this odd island-endemic creature belongs to an otherwise extinct group of non-therian archaic mammals most closely related monotremes. Curiously it has independently evolved vivipary and converged with both mylodontine ground sloths and proboscideans, becoming a megafaunal burrowing herbivore with a long dexterous trunk.
In September 2020 I decided to start a new monthly drawing challenge and launchedΒ #Spectember, a free-for-all month of speculative evolution creations. This is one of the many works that resulted.
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Reminds me Alf in a very good way. Looks adorable and peaceful.
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So, they are hatched from eggs?
Have you noted how they have a symbiotic defensive and even social relationship with Pseudo-Canaria Mullerornis, last extant species of the Aepyornithidae, nicknamed Generally as the βElephant Birdsβ. Pseudo-Canaria is distinctive in its remarkable superficial resemblance to the common yellow canary, only seeming as a gigantic one.
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Dang. Well, what do you think of my symbiotic elephant bird idea?
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Anyway, Snuffy looks like he could get a job as a termite exterminator.
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Hmm, I think the Elephant Birds are the gigantic birds most similar to big bird, ESPECIALLY the feet and breadth of the rump. No Megalornis had a beak anything like Big Bird, but there was at least one Elephant Bird that came close, which is why I picked that real genera for the fictional species. They had the longest, thinnest beak of the entire family.
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Yes, I discovered that later. I still prefer elephant birds as a baseline just because I can imagine how embarrassed poor Big Bird will become once he slowly becomes increasingly naked. Puberty will be a bitch!
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Too bad. I was having a notion for an βugly ducklingβ scenario where Snuffyβs egg had accidentally ended up in Big Birdβs nest and thatβs how they were raised together.
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The shaved one activates my fight or flight response.
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