Speculative Biology

Anything by CM Kosemen especially Snaiad.

Fentil, Illion and Abiogenesis' Birrin world but those are on Deviantart.

Wayne Barlowe is an artist first and scientist second.

>>2245452

Must live on a low gravity planet with those spindly legs.

>>2245522

The Sniaid website has been down for years.

>>2245452
>>2245453
Could someone translate the latin names?

>>2248553
foot(something), straw/or stalk-like crown of thorns.
Best I could come up with.
http://latin-dictionary.net/search/latin/
This works wonders when you want to think of animal names.

>>2248555
Thank you, and nice trips.

>>2248305
GUESS AGAIN, NERD
https://canopy.uc.edu/bbcswebdav/users/gibsonic/Snaiad/snduterus.html

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>tfw too intelligent for planets

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rare creature that survives off of weed

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Bump

Here's an idea I have

A world of silicon creatures that move so slowly that a chase between predator and prey would last centuries

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>>2252291

Thats pretty neat.

Maybe the wind and weather patterns provide cover for swarms of little critters that camouflage themselves as snow and move with the wind to find detritus to land on, consume, replicate themselves through crystallization before the air dries, they break away and join the next passing snow storm to hide in.

>>2252291
Larry niven's draco tavern has "slowlife".
His rationalization is reducing metabolism instead of oxygenating. NO idea if that makes sense.

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>>2248876

Well fuck me silly.

I've also kinda been doing my own worldbuilding project as a hobby. Pic related is the base map (with glacial ice) of my imaginary alien planet BallsackMcHorsetitties, that I painstakingly drew in MSpaint. Topography and Biome maps in progress.

>>2249691
go back to r9k, turkish alien drawing fellow

>>2248876
not to shill but OP this guy is *the* name in spec bio

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>>2247977
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>>2252286
These are straight fantasy, not speculative biology.

>>2253115
That's beautiful
Artist?

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>>2253117
Vincent Vello

Why ask 4chan? You can find entire planets worth of work, some of it freaking amazing, on Deviantart

I'd always like to imagine what vertebrates would end up like if the only terrestrial vertebrates were the (semi)terrestrial fish of today, like rivulus, walking catfish, climbing perch, rockskippers, mudskippers, ect, and see how the evolve.

>>2253091
I've made stuff like that myself.

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https://waynebarlowe.wordpress.com/artwork/expedition/

I love Wayne Barlowe, if you want more from him check out Barlowe's Inferno

>>2252286
Oh hell no, get that deviantart sparklewolf shit out of here.

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This seems up your guys' alley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge18Ieyi9bI
I like creatures and stuff, but I gotta see movement, you know?
(pic unrelated)

>>2254242
this is awesome!

>no twitching feelers, rasping wings, slimy coils, curling tentacles, no monstrous union of superhuman intelligence and insatiable cruelty seemed to him anything but likely on an alien world. He saw in imagination various incompatible monstrosities -bulbous eyes, grinning jaws, horns, stings, mandibles. Loathing of insects, loathing of snakes, loathing of things that squashed and squelched, all played their horrible symphonies over his nerves. But the reality would be worse: it would be an extra-terrestrial Otherness - something one had never thought of, never could have thought of.

>>2253816
That thing is as good as extinct in the ocean, you dont seem to realize how fast paced eat and be eaten is in the water. A predator can just knock it on its side or a strong enough jaw can break through the exoskeleton.
>>2254220
Thoose things probably have a shitload of parasites slowly killing them, also creature with this much mass are bettter off as filter feeders rather than predators.
>>2247977
This creature would require a very less dense skeleton along with a series of gas filled sacks in its body to do this.

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>>2245449

>>2254542
wheres this from? cool quote

>>2255234
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
it's a truncated quote from a band called Blaster the Rocketman who wrote a song about the books protagonist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxMabwI7J4o

>>2254606
Yeah, thats why there are no large drifting animals in real life, right? I keep forgetting sunfish, oarfish, basking sharks, etc are mythical and could never exist.

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Jovians

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