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Abiogenisis — Predator Headshot
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Published: 2010-01-27 09:28:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 107165; Favourites: 1498; Downloads: 1021
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A Headshot of a large predator from the Birrin world.Upper eyestalks contain eyes and ears, lower contain eyes and sensory tentacles.
Most creatures related to the Birrin have 4 'lips' covering their jaws. However in this case the upper lip has evolved into a head shield which helps the creature push through dense forest. The blue membrane is used for display and can be retracted under a shield when not in use.
The animal hunts like a large heron, snatching smaller prey by shooting forward its long neck. It swallows most food whole, or by tearing it apart with its smaller inner jaws and toothed tongues.
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This is awesome! Are you goning to do a picture of it's whole body?
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Actually I do have a design, and will do a pic of them eventually
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Great! 
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Mostly invertebrates like a worm called Eunice, which has huge jaws, and dinosaurs like T Rex.
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Reminds me a little of a solpugid's jaws [link] .
Also The beings from the Predator movies have 4 jaws.
Your creatures are marvelous!
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I'm amazed over and over again whenever I have a look at your work. I can't wait to see more...
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Looks like a stag beetle mixed subtly with an brachiosaurus
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This is great! It looks so real, and I can kinda feel the strength of its jaws. Looks like it would hurt a lot to be bitten by it
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Love the detail in this. This looks like something that shares taxonomic relation to the Biirin sentients, like some sort of peer pre-sentient apex predator (ie: a baboon to a human, or more distantly a bear to a human).
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You are correct. They are related to the Birrin, and much larger. However they are highly intelligent, approaching Birrin level, and they have complex interactions with Birrin societies.
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Now that's a whole extra dimension of interesting you've piled on there. Any plans to depict such interactions? By complex do you mean dumpster diving racoons/bears etc or something else? This sounds pretty neat.
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Oh yes I will depict these interactions.
Interactions include drug trade, slave or paid labor, basic treaties and food product trade.
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great concept and beautifully rendered
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Awesome!! Your skills are a very powerful weapon!! Every work in your gallery is great 
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You really have a good grasp on organic tissue and texture!
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Wow, this looks awesome! And it actually looks like it could theoretically exist. I've just started skimming your gallery, but it looks just awesome!
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Ooohhh Toothed-tongue! Gosh! Amazing skill!
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this is awesome! but one thing that it makes me wonder about. hat bulge on it's head is from it's skull as far as i can tell, and it makes me wonder what the birrn skeleton looks like as wellas this creature's. maybe something to think about? :wink:
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Awesome Creature! One of my favorite pics on the site.
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I don't recall seeing any.
Are there any parasites for the residents of this alien world? Or rat equivalent? Did anything become genophage like a virus, or maybe a variance in microbiology?
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wooooooow
this looks realllllly coool. I love the colors.
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Do the Birrin (and this thing, by extension) by any chance have scallop-type "mirror eyes" ?
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How similar in behaviour is this creature to the Birrin? The resemblance is not remarkable, considering they're related...
The detailing on this is remarkable, as always. The outlines are crisp, like a National Geographic spread
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This species is about twice as smart as a gorilla, and they have some basic treaties with the Birrin to prevent the two species from killing each other.
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Amazing work! You've probably been my biggest creature-creation inspiration. And I have two worlds which are in dire need of flora and fauna.
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This was totally worth the wait. I love the colours and skin pattern. The 'depth' of the closest beak was a good point made, though.
The two big black tooth things look to me like they retract into that socket when the mouth closes. I must say that the mouth is quite busy and the lower lip looks a little confusing where the tooth thing meets it, looks like it goes behind it. Then again, it's your design so maybe thats what happens.
Your work is inspiring and I can't wait for more.
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Great fully realized xenobiology. I love this stuff, its so clever and creative. Good to see you're posting again. Functional form evolved from sets of rules that are all their own, gotta love it. Great pic!
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Awesome!
can u make the complete creature?
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Wow, great work! Did you study evolutionary biology by any chanse? Then I would like to say "hi fellow biologist"!
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Kind of reminds me of a graboid from Tremors.
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amazing!
and the description is just great.
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Amazing stuff, man! How's the project coming along? I expect to one day see this in a bookstore alongside "Expedition" !
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yeah he should continue all that,and maybe use them for some video games lol
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Its a pity that it would be probably impossible to buy in Poland. It was difficult to get "Expedition" trough Atlantic, while most shops doesn't want to send books to Europe.
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Those jaws of this critter reminded a lot like a Swiss Army knife, so many tools and blades to hold, saw, and cut its prey. Very impressive!
I have to agree with Moai's crit on the left (it's right) 'lip'. The tip of it needs to be darkened to give it a sense that the beak-like lip is nearer towards the viewers.
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Oh my god, yes! I've been hoping and waiting to see another alien from this world, and my hopes have been answered and then some. Fantastic, fantastic creature. It's my favorite one you've uploaded yet. My only complaint is that its right lateral jaw/lip, the one closer to us, does not feel like its projecting towards us in space as much as it should. Perhaps putting a stronger highlight on it would work, or darkening the flesh behind it, would help with that.
What does its body look like?
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