Do you enjoy speculative evolution?

Wayne Barlowe > all

>>9004239
Barlowe and After Man for an upbeat happy alien feel.

All Tomorrows and Man After Man for interesting existential dread.

>>9004238
Sure, who doesn't enjoy Making Shit Up?

>>9004279
BORING people.

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>>9004238
YES

>>9004239
Barlowe is very good, but Kosemen is best.

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>>9004900
>wheel legged cock shaped dinosaur doing 200kph

Call it evolutionary fantasy and I am fine with it

Otherwise no

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>>9004921
That's Memo for ya

>>9004982
How are the wheels even supposed to rotate? What drives them?

>>9004992
em drive

>>9004982
>commonest

Jesus...

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>>9004992
It's described right there in the picture

>>9005048
Go easy on him, he's not an anglo

>>9004238
Is there any other kind?

>>9004921
>Badly hidden symbol?
Why?

>>9005195

>raptors, the ultimate mid-sized land predator, equipped with serrated teeth, claws, and killing talons
>developing the use of spears because ???

Seriously, it'd make more sense if they were attacking a prey animal many times their size that they couldn't get close to or take down just using their natural weapons. Using spears to hunt a small, relatively slow dino when you're a raptor is counterproductive.

>>9004982
>Airscrews
holy shit
I wish there was a good explanation of the rotator muscles, that might be an interesting bit of design

>>9004238
Yes, there was a good thread on it in >>>/an/ last month.

>>9007901
>developing the use of spears because ???

Those look more like Neanderthal spears where they don't throw them but they are used as a thrusting weapon. They would develop them so to stay further away from more dangerous prey species. The image anon posted doesn't need to show the only thing they hunt, nor does it need to make sense really.

>>9007929
Looks like undulations of the walls of a chamber lined with muscles. The muscles "push" on the sides of the bony knobs. It'd be like a mix of throat muscle action and a heart.

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>a lone aquatic human watching his last sunset, for yet more meteors bombard the earth

I hate that "speculative" evolution writers ignore that evolutionary history shows that the past 65 million years have consistently had the same animals in a slightly different shape, and instead think that in the future we will have telepathic sasquatch buddies and wheeled penisaurs. Nature has settled on a few basic body plans and organ systems since the first amphibians walked on land and it's retarded to assume that they can ever change.

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>>9008050
>what is After Man
>what is The Future is Far
>what is the Neocene project

Really enjoyed last and first men. Leave your autism at the door and let your imaginiation go.

Good site on speculative alien biota. Also interesting deep-time backstory which includes a total reset.

https://canopy.uc.edu/bbcswebdav/users/gibsonic/Snaiad/snduterus.html