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Published: 2014-06-03 22:14:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 19141; Favourites: 360; Downloads: 83
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A whole bunch a prehistoric critters that weren't dinosaurs.
EDIT: Kelenken has been moved to Dinasawrs because birds are dinosaurs.
EDIT 2: removed the now-inaccurate Atopodentatus
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yo the thing tha looks like a bulbous head in the hallucigenia its actually its booty
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Urth, the only planet with fractal broccoli, and creatures who look like you looked in a fish tank while on shrooms.
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Hallucigenia actually didnt have a bulbous head! apparently the head was actually its squished innards. They also had rad tentacles as well!
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Oooh, Hallucigenia! I remember that from a book I had on paleontology. The story behind that one taught me how tentative our interpretations of prehistoric animals are. I guess that was why I wasn't so upset when the news came out that dinosaurs had feathers XD I love your designs, by the way; I found you from a reddit post.Β
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Hallucigenia really could be the poster child of the ever-changing views of fossils, given how it used to be depicted upside-down!
What was that reddit post about, may I ask? I don't mind my stuff being shared or anything, just curious.
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Yeah, that's the most vivid memory I have of that book-- the comparison between the two orientations.
And there are a few posts of your art:Β www.reddit.com/r/SpeculativeEvβ¦ but I think the "Crested Jormunithan" sent me to your dA. /r/SpeculativeEvolution is a fascinating subreddit. I think you'd enjoy it.Β
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It brings a really bad taste to my mouth to seeΒ KelenkenΒ in here.
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Let me guess, because it's technically a dinosaur?
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"Technically" implies that there is any doubt.
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Not so much doubt as not being used to thinking that way.
But since you're not the first (or second) to bring this up, I may have to fix this...
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I see you've made the edit. Very good
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It is entierly up to you what you do. All I can say is that it makes me personally feel awkward that it is there. It is like labelling an artwork "beatles" and showing 5 drawings of beatles and a drawing of a spider.
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But everyone knows there were only four Beatles!
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what kind of animal is that Herpetogaster?!
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A very strange and unique animal!
... which is to say it doesn't seem like anyone really knows and nothing alive today even remotely resembles it, so I can't give you a proper answer.
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now that I look at it, I suppose it kinda looks like that species of coral called 'feather coral'. here is a picture of it: www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/β¦
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One of the coolest things about Atopodentatus is that you simply can't reconstruct it in a "conservative" way, it's just ridiculously weird in any way you can possibly look at it. The same goes for Opabinia... all Burgess Shale biota actually.
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this. The most likely version still has harelips and even the ones that don't look freaky as hell.
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You included a theropod in non-dinosaurs!??!!??!
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Yes. Because as cool as it is that birds are technically dinosaurs, I'm stuck in the habit of separating them for no good reason.
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Then break that habit XD
The age of dinosaurs is not over yet.
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Chalicotherium is quite normal if by you compare it with Tylocephalonyx.
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Hallucigenia definately sparks memory of a weird prehistoric sea creature; it has baffled scientists because of the blob on one end, worm-like body, but no distinguishable head or mouth!
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I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT!
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All extremely creative and realistic color schemes!
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It is weird to think such creatures existed. Herpetogaster and Hallucigenia look like some sci-fi aliens. These all looks great!Β
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Fun fact: Hallucigenia's name means "nightmarish" or "unreal". Even the paleontologists who discovered it were like "Dude, this thing looks like something Satan would have a fever dream about!"
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Cool! 
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The color schemes are all based on real animals. Opabinia's comes from the vampire crab, Estemmenosuchus from the fallow deer, Atopodentatus from the marine iguana, etc..
Same applies with 'Dinasawrs' and a lot of the other creatures I draw.
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I see a bit of American avocet in the Dsungaripterus too
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I did notice the marine iguana and a couple of the others look familiar too. It's a good method!
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Yeah, I always find it hard to get a natural-looking color scheme from scratch. Like it lacks a logical purpose or something... as bizarre as that sounds with a vivid purple, trunk-faced, five blazing orange eyed, swimming lobster-tail thing.
I do wonder if the original source ever seems distractingly obvious, though. I avoid using animals like the cassowary for that reason.
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I'm not sure "distracting" is the right word, it's just a (generally subtle) reference.Β You could always look up research on animal markings to base your own on?
Either way, it's always nice to see something that isn't a plain grey/brown-ish theme applied to extinct species depictions!
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