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Published: 2012-06-20 01:35:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 17337; Favourites: 426; Downloads: 123
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This is a future carnivore derived from viverrids, a veldt-dwelling speedster similar to the cheetah. The one pictured is a female (males have a black bar across the throat). I drew it at the moment she is leaping from cover and starting to accelerate in pursuit of prey.Not my own design -
Pardinias are (c)
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What other varieties of future viverrids are there in this world?
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Quite a few - you can check out the dedicated group Β to see what other artists have done
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You have a style about you that makes your future animals look like, well, animals
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I'll never be a photorealistic painter, but I do hope they are at least convincing
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I've had a thought in mind today
Could a carnivora mammal (in my mind, a viverrid like a civet) become bipedal and evolve to resemble a theropod dinosaur if given the chance?
Apart from humans and kangaroos, a few other mammals like pangolins can walk on their hind legs. theΒ Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo can also walk on it's hind legs on the ground instead of hopping.Β And even the extinctΒ Leptictidium is believed to walk and run on two legs.
So how about a carnivora mammal like my viverrid evolving to walk and run on it's hind legs, and becoming a theropod-like mammal?
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It's hard to say, mammals are pretty four on the floor, and vivverrids tend to have long bodies and short legs - I could see something like a raccoon that can already toddle along on its hind legs maybe, and there were carnivorous kangaroos that didn't hop. I don't think they'd ever get very big. Dinos seemed to have lucked out with a better respiratory system that helped them get so massive.Β
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Mmm, what about something like the Raboon from Dougal Dixon's After Man book? The theropod like baboon descendent
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It dosen't seem terribly likely - a quadruped would be more likely.
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This turned out very well - love the pose and expression on the face also
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Beautiful! I can extremely easily imagine this guy sprinting across the savannah, taking down some artiodactyl or whatever.Β
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I hope THIS one is here to stay, cuz I like it.Β
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I'm happy with this one
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Before I read, I thought this was an American cheetah or the like. Anyways, it looks very nice ^^
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It's definitely cheetahlike
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wow, so this is what a genet looks like in the future.
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Simply amazing! This SHOULD exist in the future!
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Beautiful, I love how it looks a little similar to the cheetah ... but has its own particular twist. It definitely looks like it could be a descendant species. 
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Just for correctness-sake, Pardinia are derived from Viverridae, the Genett, not mustelids.
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Whups - fixed. That's what I get for writing from memory.
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Cool
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Yeah, I looked at about a million civet pictures before I drew this. I'm just running on a very little sleep at the moment and got the terminology confused.
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Great stuff, I know I can count on ya, when it comes to mammals
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I like painting reptiles, too, just for some reason I never seem to have a reason to.
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Judging from the length of the snout, I'd say that this is supposed to be a weasel that had evolved considerably?
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absolutely wonderful piece of work! The pose, the movement, the musculature and the idea... wow.
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I love mustelids (and their derivatives!).
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It is very awesome! Thanks for that from Neocene-project!!!
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