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, ive just been making up critters for the fun of it. i think i got too many hang-ups with my critter creations so now im just going back to basics with sticking horns and fins on stuff and calling it a day. i guess i got the idea after reading The Veligent www.deviantart.com/art/Cover-o… and then took a walk with my dogs and saw an old tree that fell over during a tornado last year and it was covered with many colors of bracket fungi and there were even some yellow cup fungi that looked like sea sponges near the roots of the old tree and i kind of got an idea for a fantastical "fungal reef" habitat populated by fun creatures. i guess i decided that i just wanted to make biologically possible animals that were just kind of tweaked versions of familiar animals. idk, i spend too much time looking at speculative evolution and exobiology critter artists on here and i guess there's a lot of pressure to make these really bizarre an unique animals unlike anything we know of now. so i decided to ditch that and have fun, at the expense of originality

anyway, this is a Sailback Grog, and hes a frog-like amphibian that feeds on poisonous insects that feeds on poisonous mushrooms in the reef. the Grogs accumulate the toxins they ingest and they can inject a potent substance through their elongated neural spines when a predator attempts to bite them. The grog's toxin is not lethal, but it has a strong narcotic effect and makes the predatoas you can imagine, some animals in the reef seek out the grog just for nodding off, but the look-alike false grog has a different arrangement of neural spines which DO inject a lethal venom. some eyewitnesses have seen the False Grogs gathering around the carcass of of their victims to feast on flies and maggots, so its possible that the false grog uses this technique not only as a defense against predators, but also as a way of procuring a steady supply of bugs to eat

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, ive just been making up critters for the fun of it. i think i got too many hang-ups with my critter creations so now im just going back to basics with sticking horns and fins on stuff and calling it a day. i guess i got the idea after reading The Veligent www.deviantart.com/art/Cover-o… and then took a walk with my dogs and saw an old tree that fell over during a tornado last year and it was covered with many colors of bracket fungi and there were even some yellow cup fungi that looked like sea sponges near the roots of the old tree and i kind of got an idea for a fantastical "fungal reef" habitat populated by fun creatures. i guess i decided that i just wanted to make biologically possible animals that were just kind of tweaked versions of familiar animals. idk, i spend too much time looking at speculative evolution and exobiology critter artists on here and i guess there's a lot of pressure to make these really bizarre an unique animals unlike anything we know of now. so i decided to ditch that and have fun, at the expense of originality

anyway, this is a Sailback Grog, and hes a frog-like amphibian that feeds on poisonous insects that feeds on poisonous mushrooms in the reef. the Grogs accumulate the toxins they ingest and they can inject a potent substance through their elongated neural spines when a predator attempts to bite them. The grog's toxin is not lethal, but it has a strong narcotic effect and makes the predatoas you can imagine, some animals in the reef seek out the grog just for nodding off, but the look-alike false grog has a different arrangement of neural spines which DO inject a lethal venom. some eyewitnesses have seen the False Grogs gathering around the carcass of of their victims to feast on flies and maggots, so its possible that the false grog uses this technique not only as a defense against predators, but also as a way of procuring a steady supply of bugs to eat