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This one was the most challenging to come up with, because I needed an early, primitive stage that looks clearly different from the other two, and it will become the basis for the dominant clade on the planet (though both Bipoda and Arthrognatha rule their own continents, like marsupials in Australia here on Earth, or lemurs in Madagascar), including a massive divergence pretty early on.

Since I already made fins, and I had to be more creative here to find a way for a creature to move from sea on to land, this little guy has legs from the beginning - the early form working a bit like a velvet worm, although it's aquatic. Six pairs of limbs of which half are eventually lost (no real explanation for that yet), lamprey-like gills, and four primitive jaws.

The third form has little tartigrade-like claws, and these creatures are still very small, only a few centimeters to a decimeter long at the most. Like I said, this one is the most challenging to work on, and I am not sure yet whether the third form is going up on land yet, or if it's still only living in crevices and rocks on the bottom of shallow bodies of water.

Description

This one was the most challenging to come up with, because I needed an early, primitive stage that looks clearly different from the other two, and it will become the basis for the dominant clade on the planet (though both Bipoda and Arthrognatha rule their own continents, like marsupials in Australia here on Earth, or lemurs in Madagascar), including a massive divergence pretty early on.

Since I already made fins, and I had to be more creative here to find a way for a creature to move from sea on to land, this little guy has legs from the beginning - the early form working a bit like a velvet worm, although it's aquatic. Six pairs of limbs of which half are eventually lost (no real explanation for that yet), lamprey-like gills, and four primitive jaws.

The third form has little tartigrade-like claws, and these creatures are still very small, only a few centimeters to a decimeter long at the most. Like I said, this one is the most challenging to work on, and I am not sure yet whether the third form is going up on land yet, or if it's still only living in crevices and rocks on the bottom of shallow bodies of water.