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People were very vocal about it, so against previous plans #Spectember2020 returned to the Sesamozoic with another misunderstood creature. Despite having passing similarity with mammoths, this odd island-endemic creature belongs to an otherwise extinct group of non-therian archaic mammals most closely related monotremes. Curiously it has independently evolved vivipary and converged with both mylodontine ground sloths and proboscideans, becoming a megafaunal burrowing herbivore with a long dexterous trunk.

In September 2020 I decided to start a new monthly drawing challenge and launched #Spectember, a free-for-all month of speculative evolution creations. This is one of the many works that resulted.

Description

People were very vocal about it, so against previous plans #Spectember2020 returned to the Sesamozoic with another misunderstood creature. Despite having passing similarity with mammoths, this odd island-endemic creature belongs to an otherwise extinct group of non-therian archaic mammals most closely related monotremes. Curiously it has independently evolved vivipary and converged with both mylodontine ground sloths and proboscideans, becoming a megafaunal burrowing herbivore with a long dexterous trunk.

In September 2020 I decided to start a new monthly drawing challenge and launched #Spectember, a free-for-all month of speculative evolution creations. This is one of the many works that resulted.