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Description
Inhabitant of Titan (Saturn's largest moon) from an alternate reality where the gas giants radiate a grand quantity of residual heat, thus allowing for Earth-like temperatures on some of their moons.

Not an attempt at a plausible, accurate and realistic creature, but the result of an exercise in pulp style sci-fi fantasy.

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Hmm, what else can I say? Uh, for some reason Titanian life makes more use of chemistry than Terran life for attack, defense and mate attraction.
The hairs of the Titanian pseudosauropodomorph are caustic and abrasive due to chemicals and their microstructure, respectively.

The body is covered by a thick, almost impenetrable skin. But because of the low gravity, the usual stuff predators do to large animals is simply climb over them and towards their more sensitive parts, so this creature has grown these caustic hairs as a barrier to protect its neck.

The broad, deformable footpads allow it to walk on mud without sinking, and even on dry ground they are necessary to exert traction and walk normally, as due to the low gravity the friction with the ground is considerably lower than on Earth.
This can be compensated with a greater weight and/or larger traction surfaces, as this organism does.

Now, how come it's not all dainty and thin the way popular wisdom says low-g animals should be? The answer, comrades, is simple: Because mass remains constant and so does inertia. Therefore this large, heavy animal still needs large, powerful muscles to get its massive arse moving, or to stop it.

But still, yeh, it's not as massive as it looks: Its bones are made of an organic material that is very strong, yet not as dense and massive as calcium bone.

As for its world, this version of Titan has a higher mean temperature than our planet.
Life is water/carbon too, there's a water cycle and overall an Earth-like mineralogical composition on the crust, except for the fact carbonaceous and sulphurous materials are far more abundant, and metals are rather scarce.

There are also vast reserves of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons just like on the real Titan, but in this case they are in the form of underground reservoirs, instead of on the surface and atmosphere.

I think this pretty much sums it up. Hmmm...
yeah.

Description
Inhabitant of Titan (Saturn's largest moon) from an alternate reality where the gas giants radiate a grand quantity of residual heat, thus allowing for Earth-like temperatures on some of their moons.

Not an attempt at a plausible, accurate and realistic creature, but the result of an exercise in pulp style sci-fi fantasy.

---

Hmm, what else can I say? Uh, for some reason Titanian life makes more use of chemistry than Terran life for attack, defense and mate attraction.
The hairs of the Titanian pseudosauropodomorph are caustic and abrasive due to chemicals and their microstructure, respectively.

The body is covered by a thick, almost impenetrable skin. But because of the low gravity, the usual stuff predators do to large animals is simply climb over them and towards their more sensitive parts, so this creature has grown these caustic hairs as a barrier to protect its neck.

The broad, deformable footpads allow it to walk on mud without sinking, and even on dry ground they are necessary to exert traction and walk normally, as due to the low gravity the friction with the ground is considerably lower than on Earth.
This can be compensated with a greater weight and/or larger traction surfaces, as this organism does.

Now, how come it's not all dainty and thin the way popular wisdom says low-g animals should be? The answer, comrades, is simple: Because mass remains constant and so does inertia. Therefore this large, heavy animal still needs large, powerful muscles to get its massive arse moving, or to stop it.

But still, yeh, it's not as massive as it looks: Its bones are made of an organic material that is very strong, yet not as dense and massive as calcium bone.

As for its world, this version of Titan has a higher mean temperature than our planet.
Life is water/carbon too, there's a water cycle and overall an Earth-like mineralogical composition on the crust, except for the fact carbonaceous and sulphurous materials are far more abundant, and metals are rather scarce.

There are also vast reserves of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons just like on the real Titan, but in this case they are in the form of underground reservoirs, instead of on the surface and atmosphere.

I think this pretty much sums it up. Hmmm...
yeah.