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Description
Metapods are a group of strange tetragnathes found on only one small, isolated continent. Their typical features are the well-developed middle legs they walk on (all other tetragnathes use their front and hind legs for walking) and the toothless jaws, which were originally used to break the shells of the big, herbivorous insect-like creatures that are also endemic, although several metapod groups prefer other food sources.Bughunter: Similar, but smaller than the common metapods, specialised on small, fast prey
Xenosaurus: Biggest metapod species, hunts other metapods
Heron metapod:Swamp-dwelling species with a special foot morphology, feeds on water-life
Red moa: Herbivouous metapods which fill a similar niche like earth's giraffes
The drawing technique I used is explained here: [link]
Yes, the description sucks and will be changed.
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how big are these creatures are they 5 foot tall or 2 feet tall
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Depends on the species: The common mesopod (this image is old and they got renamed in the meantime as the name is factually wrong) has a hip/shoulderΒ height off 1,60 m, bughunters are about 60 cm, xenosauri reach 2,10 m and red moas 2,30 m with about double the height when standing upright.
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Kind of Looks Like a Shreaker from the Crappy Movie Tremors 2.
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Well, both of them look like a short, fat theropod.
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Theropod ?detail Pleace need to figure out what folder place them into.
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Just the general shape. They're bipedal predators with a horizontal spine, a short, thick tail (or tail-like hind body) and three-segmented legs. It says absolutely nothing about their relationships.
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WARNING! Do not spam! Or you will be violated by a horde of horny midgets in clown suits, even if you just posted your spam once!
Seriously, chain posts are fucking stupid and won't harm anybody.Β
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I wonder who the particularly pleasant individual who wrote that was. Because I would like to offer a friendly invitation to that person, and with some of his nerves will be randomly activated by blunt objects being moved at high velocities at him/her.
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Add all the others who create these chain posts. What the hell do they want to accomplish with them, anyway?
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i'm sorry...and yes i'm a pussy because get scared by a chain message
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Well, now you know it. Chain messages are completely harmless and do nothing more than annoy those who receive them.
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I thought about renaming them to mesopods, it would fit them bettr.
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Sorry, it was a dumb joke, I know 
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Weeell, I did name them, then noticed there is some pupa pokemon with the same name. But the mesopod/metapod actually refers to the terminology, not to pokemon.
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actually... insects have pronotum, mesonotum and metaanotum in the thorax, so meta should refer to the last pair of legs, and because these walk on the middle pair, shouldn't they really be called mesopods?
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Yes, that is correct. The future entries mentioning them refer to them as mesopods already. I do need sometime to fix all those entries, to incorporate updates and especially fix the copious typos.
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allright! 
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I know it refers to the middle, but if you look at it from a different point of view, the pokemon metapod also refers to the linguistics, because it was the "middle" stage between caterpie and beedril
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All the details and structure
Keep at this it looks really awesome and so realistic!! x3
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I like it, although I would suggest moving the legs back a bit as the creature looks unbalanced (it looks as though it should be dragging its belly).
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The massive head is quite heavy.
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That's awesome!!
Love the Red Moa. If only my country's ancestors didn't wipe them off NZ. Moas are too cool.
I love the Xenosaurus as well!!!
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wow, awseome, I love moas, this one is cool, you've given it so much detail, like what you see in decent dinosaur books, awesome ^^ and I like its survival physcial features like the attractive stripy tail and such, makes it seem more as if it could have existed
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