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My book 'Other Worlds' has an entire chapter dedicated to Subnautica: Below Zero.

Tons of creatures, sketches and insights into the design process, and my thoughts on their speculative evolution.

The Kickstarter for the book has just 7 days to go :) https://bit.ly/403C70b

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A rowdy Cryolophosaurus ellioti trying to pick a fight in Early Jurassic Antarctica

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Ko-fi Dooble

"Whatever creature lurks in those fenced drainage ponds"

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Just some little guys!

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Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

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Indian sun spider (aka camel spider aka wind scorpion), Rhagodima nigrocincta, Solifugae

Despite the many common names, these arachnids are neither true spiders or scorpions, but rather belong to their own order, Solifugae, aka the solifuges.

Photographed in India by harshithjv

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Little dilophosaurus sculpt!

This piece is also available via the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery, local purchase or international shipping available (link to their website in my pinned post)!

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Hateg Island: Jurassic Impact

Micropodarion

Titanamia

Deinoscincus

Calvarornis

Caudavian and Crabs

Albanerpetonids in the Startchfruit Trees

Hyloceradactylus, and Ambulolacus

- u/EpicJM

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(Nycerella delecta, via iNaturalist)

Even in 1896, Peckham & Peckham noted in their description of the then-named Cyrene delecta a certain degree of variation in the extent of white coloration on females of the species. This striking individual may represent an example one such variant.

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December 17, 2024 - Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill (Lophoceros camurus) These hornbills are found in parts of western and central Africa in forests and wetlands. They eat insects, some lizards, and rarely fruit, foraging in groups at lower levels of the forest and on the ground and often following squirrels and driver-ants to feed on fleeing insects. Possibly breeding cooperatively, they nest in tree cavities where females remain sealed except for a small hole until leaving the nest halfway through the nestling period to help the males.

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Hämndlystnad

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Crab linocut prints

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Leaf Eels

dracovita,,, smiche,,,

A very common group of fish in dracovita, Leaf Eels are often most well known for their smallest members and their behaviour of mimicking leaves to hide from predators and sneak up on prey. Despite being named eels they are not true eels, and get called eels because of their culinary uses, being used as a substitute for true eels in many different meals and dishes.

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Creatures!

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Bird #60 - the Edward's pheasant (CR)

There is an estimated ~92% chance of this pheasant being completely extinct in the wild.

Fortunately, many birds still exist in captivity, and there is a facility being made to try and rebuild their population. (The project reports seem pretty detailed and transparent!)

Unfortunately, the captive population is descended from only a few pheasants and very inbred - traits like the white crest has been impacted in some birds due to the genetic bottleneck. It also seems the reintroduction project lacks funding to finish their infrastructure.

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i forgot to post drawings from previous flocking, which means there will be lots of drawings in one post!! all roughly 30min, i worked on them a bit more after streams. id in alt :)

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Reposting some old crabs. for my marylanders out there.