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Future creatures 2 – The postnuclear age

I love future creatures! You maybe remember my last ball pen compilation of them, if not you can find it in my gallery. Last time I imagined a future where all present trees extinct, instead of them dominated kelp trees and giant lichen. This time I thought about what could happen only a few million years, or just ten thousands of years after the nuclear winter. Maybe the radiation will cause some quick mutations and wipe out rivals, so at first weaker animals will become rulers.
I dream of a scenario where some scientist and soldiers survived the fatal event in some cryogenic chambers under the earth surface. After their long sleep they awake and are confronted with these little beauties:

a. Zanke (from “Zangenschnecke”, pliers snail) – The Zanke is a parasitic snail from ancient Brazil, which has developed a pair of pliers at its mouth. It lives like a tic, waiting patiently at leafs until a victim comes at its reach. It specialized on big mammals, which are rare in the postnuclear age. The snail house is empty, but can be completely filled with sucked blood.

b. Ruesselwurz (trunk root) – The Ruesselwurz is a carnivorous descendant of prenuclear orchids. It lives in the dried out wastelands of the Mississippi and Amazonas. The huge root works like an energy loft, the leafs are degenerated and nearly useless. The Ruesselwurz feeds with it’s trunk on everything in its near – insects, spiders, little amphibians and rodents. A question for you: How does the trunk work?

c. Spratz (from “Springender Spatz”, jumping sparrow) – The Spratz developed from average sparrows in the steppe of Brandenburg near the completely destroyed capital of Germany, once called Berlin. It’s 15 centimeters tall and comparable to a jumping desert mouse from the prenuclear age. It feeds on gigantic mutated rain worms and seeds of superior dandelions (I think I have to show that in another picture). It lives in groups up to twenty individuals and it lost the ability to fly, maybe caused by the radiation.

d. Lindwurm (old german name for European dragons) – The Lindwurm is a huge sixty centimeters long digging snake. It lives under the earth of ancient France, Germany, Poland and a few Balkan countries. The head works like a shovel, the scales are smooth so the Lindwurm can easily slide through the ground. They live in cave systems, where they cooperate with other Lindwurms. Their nests can be gigantic with over a hundred of eggs.

e. Stachelbuckel (thorny hunchback) – The Stachelbuckel is the massive descendant of ancient hedgehogs. It grew so big, because all cattle and deer extinct through the nuclear event and their niches where free. Other rodents have grown so big in the same way, like beavers and greyhounds. The Stachelbuckel developed from an insectivore into a true herbivore, but it doesn’t live in herds. Maybe the herd evolution is something to expect for these creatures in the next million years.

f. Flussleuchter (river light) – The Flussleuchter is something really special, cause it developed from deep sea fishes! After all ancient fishes extinct in the nuclear winter, the deep sea creatures conquered the free niches. It’s impressive how they managed the adaption to the lower pressure and even river conditions. The marine species are getting monsters right at the moment, cause there are no sharks and no whales. Deep sea for the win!

g. Schrecklurch (scare amphibian) – The Schrecklurch is the descendant of an amphibian from Mexico called Axolotl. Is has developed strong jaws and legs and poisonous saliva to protect itself. I think the Schrecklurch is the best example on this page to show what can happen to once harmless creatures. This monster absolutely looks like something from a bad horror movie, devouring thoughtless teenagers at a lake in a warm summer night.

h. Oktopilz (from “Oktopus-Pilz”, octopus mushroom) – The Oktopilz is a highly developed slime mold. The mold crawls slowly across the surface, sometimes for years, until is forms this shape for reproduction. The treelike thing is only ten centimeters tall, but that’s huge for a slime mold! The “tentacles” can grab prey even in this stadium. The Oktopilz lives in moderate climate around the Mediterranean region. Some subspecies can infect animals to use them for travelling.

i. Fangblatt (catching leaf) – The Fangblatt is a leaf-shaped spider from the Australian rainforest. I think there is nothing more to say. Just a nice example for mimicry.

j. Wuestenbasilisk (desert basilisk) – The Wuestenbasilisk is a desert iguana. It has the size of an average crocodile, but it can move much faster. After the nuclear event this creature is the biggest land living predator. Its comparable to the Permian Gorgonopsid and it hunts the same way, for example major desert crabs und turkeys.

So, hope you like it! My favourite this time is the Lindwurm, which looks like a Goa’uld from Stargate. Think there are some other creatures to show you. Keep on watching and please comment, my friends!

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Future creatures 2 – The postnuclear age

I love future creatures! You maybe remember my last ball pen compilation of them, if not you can find it in my gallery. Last time I imagined a future where all present trees extinct, instead of them dominated kelp trees and giant lichen. This time I thought about what could happen only a few million years, or just ten thousands of years after the nuclear winter. Maybe the radiation will cause some quick mutations and wipe out rivals, so at first weaker animals will become rulers.
I dream of a scenario where some scientist and soldiers survived the fatal event in some cryogenic chambers under the earth surface. After their long sleep they awake and are confronted with these little beauties:

a. Zanke (from “Zangenschnecke”, pliers snail) – The Zanke is a parasitic snail from ancient Brazil, which has developed a pair of pliers at its mouth. It lives like a tic, waiting patiently at leafs until a victim comes at its reach. It specialized on big mammals, which are rare in the postnuclear age. The snail house is empty, but can be completely filled with sucked blood.

b. Ruesselwurz (trunk root) – The Ruesselwurz is a carnivorous descendant of prenuclear orchids. It lives in the dried out wastelands of the Mississippi and Amazonas. The huge root works like an energy loft, the leafs are degenerated and nearly useless. The Ruesselwurz feeds with it’s trunk on everything in its near – insects, spiders, little amphibians and rodents. A question for you: How does the trunk work?

c. Spratz (from “Springender Spatz”, jumping sparrow) – The Spratz developed from average sparrows in the steppe of Brandenburg near the completely destroyed capital of Germany, once called Berlin. It’s 15 centimeters tall and comparable to a jumping desert mouse from the prenuclear age. It feeds on gigantic mutated rain worms and seeds of superior dandelions (I think I have to show that in another picture). It lives in groups up to twenty individuals and it lost the ability to fly, maybe caused by the radiation.

d. Lindwurm (old german name for European dragons) – The Lindwurm is a huge sixty centimeters long digging snake. It lives under the earth of ancient France, Germany, Poland and a few Balkan countries. The head works like a shovel, the scales are smooth so the Lindwurm can easily slide through the ground. They live in cave systems, where they cooperate with other Lindwurms. Their nests can be gigantic with over a hundred of eggs.

e. Stachelbuckel (thorny hunchback) – The Stachelbuckel is the massive descendant of ancient hedgehogs. It grew so big, because all cattle and deer extinct through the nuclear event and their niches where free. Other rodents have grown so big in the same way, like beavers and greyhounds. The Stachelbuckel developed from an insectivore into a true herbivore, but it doesn’t live in herds. Maybe the herd evolution is something to expect for these creatures in the next million years.

f. Flussleuchter (river light) – The Flussleuchter is something really special, cause it developed from deep sea fishes! After all ancient fishes extinct in the nuclear winter, the deep sea creatures conquered the free niches. It’s impressive how they managed the adaption to the lower pressure and even river conditions. The marine species are getting monsters right at the moment, cause there are no sharks and no whales. Deep sea for the win!

g. Schrecklurch (scare amphibian) – The Schrecklurch is the descendant of an amphibian from Mexico called Axolotl. Is has developed strong jaws and legs and poisonous saliva to protect itself. I think the Schrecklurch is the best example on this page to show what can happen to once harmless creatures. This monster absolutely looks like something from a bad horror movie, devouring thoughtless teenagers at a lake in a warm summer night.

h. Oktopilz (from “Oktopus-Pilz”, octopus mushroom) – The Oktopilz is a highly developed slime mold. The mold crawls slowly across the surface, sometimes for years, until is forms this shape for reproduction. The treelike thing is only ten centimeters tall, but that’s huge for a slime mold! The “tentacles” can grab prey even in this stadium. The Oktopilz lives in moderate climate around the Mediterranean region. Some subspecies can infect animals to use them for travelling.

i. Fangblatt (catching leaf) – The Fangblatt is a leaf-shaped spider from the Australian rainforest. I think there is nothing more to say. Just a nice example for mimicry.

j. Wuestenbasilisk (desert basilisk) – The Wuestenbasilisk is a desert iguana. It has the size of an average crocodile, but it can move much faster. After the nuclear event this creature is the biggest land living predator. Its comparable to the Permian Gorgonopsid and it hunts the same way, for example major desert crabs und turkeys.

So, hope you like it! My favourite this time is the Lindwurm, which looks like a Goa’uld from Stargate. Think there are some other creatures to show you. Keep on watching and please comment, my friends!