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danieljoelnewman — Winger
Published: 2007-09-02 17:45:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 972; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 35
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a sketch from a couple days ago...another strange ensemble of different prehistoric crittersRelated content
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Excellent creature design. I like the way its wings fold, and how arm-like its rear limbs are. The tail is pretty cool, too.
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The knuckle-walking hind feet is an interesting quality.
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very neat critter.....not sure how it moves about; (read: I'm very much looking forwards to seeing how it gets around)
bravo!
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What if the permian extinction didn't happen? What's with the tail?
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my guess about the tail is that the children use their tails to mimic...no, wait, snakes didn't show up until long after the Permian.
hm...in that case, no idea.
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perhaps not snakes, but something analogous?
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makes sense, yeah.
(mimics tanystrophes descendents?)
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or perhaps aistopods, but maybe they died out before the permian? Tanystropheids don't seem to be built like snakes, their necks have a few enormously extended vertebra instead of many short ones.
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possible, though I couldn't find more than two aistopod skeletons via google image, which also gave nothing more than "The later Paleozoic saw a great diversity of amphibians, ranging from small legless swimming forms (Aistopoda) to bizarre "horned" forms (Nectridea). Other Paleozoic amphibians more or less resembled salamanders outwardly but differed in details of skeletal structure. Exactly how to classify these fossils, and how they might be related to living amphibians, is still debated by paleontologists. Shown at the right is Phlegethontia, an aistopod from the Pennsylvanian."
ps: caterpillars aren't built like snakes either - but they can still scare off birds.
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