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four new species for rahlo's jungles!

feel free to ask questions :D

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In this land of divine corpses and ancient flesh, fluid is a precious thing. It doesn't just apply to the people who live here, those that worship the Four Humors and Godly Fluids. Even the creatures of the world understand its importance and power. Some wield them for protection or hunting, others may call these fluids home, while plenty gorge themselves upon the land's offerings. They may specialize in a specific humor, or slurp up any liquid they come across. As long as it fills the belly! And of these humor drinkers, there are few more well known than the Driller Tick.

The Driller Tick is a large arachnid that has cast aside the notion of hunting prey. They find no need in weaving webs or seeking out suitable hosts, not when the land itself is practically bursting with food. The parasitic nature of the tick has been turned upon the environment itself, draining from fluid bodies and great buried veins. The Driller Tick slowly walks across the land, using its sensory organs to sniff out ample supplies of humor that may be above or below. Simple pools upon the surface are easily slurped up, but their main target are the ones that are underground, as there is less competition for the stuff other creatures cannot easily reach.

Their sensitive legs tap at the earth as they walk, trying to detect veins and pools beneath them. When a promising sign is found, the Driller Tick will rear up on four legs, positioning itself so its head is pointing straight down. The back two pairs grip their abdomen and help stabilize the body, as they do not wish to tip over. The proboscis is unsheathed and plunged into the earth, where it will slowly drill deeper and deeper til it strikes food. Its toughness, sharpness and vibrating nature helps break through petrified flesh and other obstacles that may block it from its prize. Once it punches through to the fluid, the Driller Tick begins to feed.

These ticks, like others of its kind, are gorge feeders, feasting upon a food source til it is depleted or until their stomachs are filled to bursting. They will happily remain locked onto a fluid body for as long as possible, slowly slurping up their fill. Their abdomens are designed to store an incredible amount of fluid, swelling to contain their massive appetites. Their stabilizer legs look to keep this growing body part balanced and upright, lest its increasing bulk tip the tick over. If the food supply runs out, the Driller Tick will withdraw its proboscis, get back down onto all eights and seek out the next. If they are properly gorged, they shall find a nice spot to bury themselves in the soil to nap and digest in peace.

With their vast stores of humor, it is no surprise that Driller Ticks are sought after by many creatures and beings. These parasites tend to get their own parasites who latch on and try to nab some of its haul. Predators may seek its fluid rich meat and try to topple these giant invertebrates. To defend itself, the Driller Tick's rear legs are equipped with barbs that give their kicks an edge. One stabilizer limb will let go to swing at foes while the others keep steady. In dire times, the Driller Tick may choose to eject a portion of its meal, spraying a shower of humor from its rear end. They are capable of "energizing" this defecated fluid to bring forth some of its raw elemental ability. So when they let loose a sprinkling of Blood, it will be charged with crimson lightning, or Yellow Bile bringing burning embers of yellowflame. This upright spraying means their own bodies may be coated with it, which serves them fine since their exoskeletons are highly resistant. Some believe they will do this when no predators are present as a means of removing parasites and filth, hosing themselves down with their gut contents.

Back during the times of plenty, Driller Ticks were a common sight. With many areas ripe with fluid bodies and buried reservoirs, these parasites were used to detect these hidden treasures. Trained breeds of them would sniff out underground pools and then use their feeding method to draw it to the surface. Collectors would embed clearvein into the tick's abdomen, situated at a specific level of their gut to siphon off fluids. The position would allow them to harvest overflow, while keeping enough in the stomach so their beast didn't starve. There was a time when there were fields of these ticks, all set up to suck up the bounty of the land. But these days, it is a rare thing to behold, perhaps because of these greedy feedings. Even if there were still plenty of underground reservoirs to drain, few would utilize these ticks, whose large upright bodies are an obvious signal. With many desperate souls out there, the sight of a feeding Driller Tick will certainly draw them in, as it is a sign of food and fluid for those who can bring this invertebrate down. In these times of poverty and need, the greedy hoarders of such wealth are torn to pieces by the hungry...

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Blyborough bat tick, Argas vespertilionis, Argasidae (softbacked ticks)

This individual was found on a deceased host, Eptesicus serotinus, the serotine bat (photo one is on the bat’s wing).

Photographed by Gilles San Martin

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Alchemists' abomination, Hedorah!

Silly fellow, and local troll

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Sea Killer

Poster accessed at “The Creature Feature Bleachers” here

[This movie goes by many names, but it’s probably most familiar as Devil Fish, because that’s the title it’s under in the Mystery Science Theater episode. The poster gives a much better look at the monster than the actual film does.]

Sea Killer CR 11 NE Magical Beast This hideous creature has the forebody of a fish and the webbed hindquarters of an octopus. Its maw is enormous and filled not with teeth, but shearing bone blades.

A sea killer is a monstrous creature with the tentacles of an octopus, the intelligence of a dolphin, the regenerative power of a sea star and the jaws of a prehistoric fish. They were artificial creations, an attempt to make a chimerical creature that could be used as a guardian and weapon of war by aquatic civilizations. Unfortunately, some side effect of their creation made them completely immune to magical or mundane control, and they escaped their masters and now swim the seas freely.

Sea killers are social creatures that hunt cooperatively. They are fond of small game, going out of their way to attack man-sized creatures, but their ravenous appetites lead them to hunt frequently. Sea killers are asexual and breed by fission; a sea killer is ancient by the time it is two years old, whereupon its body collapses and breaks apart. The largest chunks grow into new sea killers, and the average sea killer spawns between three and ten “children” at once. As such, sea killer populations can rapidly grow out of hand, unless controlled by stronger sea monsters or the concerted efforts of underwater humanoids.

A sea killer is approximately thirty feet long and weighs five tons.

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it’s kinda sad that the cassowary gets sensationalised as “scary knife murder bird”

like don’t get me wrong - they absolutely can do serious harm and/or kill, but that’s if they’re startled/during mating season/caring for chicks, which is standard for most animals that are bigger than us/sporting some kind of natural weaponry

cassowary are super cool birds outside of that

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Compilation of tonight's fun.

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Great homage to Godzilla vs. The Thing on this Munchkin Cthulhu card.

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Creatures and the fish that inspired them! All art and photos by me 🐟🐠

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just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

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"The Beast of the End Times" I've been really fixated on the concept of a Godzilla Apocalypse (Godzillapocalypse?) so for Black Mass I went the extra mile of making Godzilla not just a city destroying monster but the bringer of the end times. In Black Mass it comes in the form of a plague and pseudo zombie apocalypse. Where Reed/Godzilla releases particles from his back into the atmosphere that effects the weather and environment to a horrific degree. Creating like a black rain, fog or nuclear winter that rains his blood and flesh from the clouds and mutating all life it comes into contact with.

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"The Entity" is the first and most powerful organism in our planet's history. It has witnessed and regulated every era of life on this planet. When the earth population becomes rather unruly, it intervenes; breaking out of its usual dormant state to initiate a rather brutal regulation process. The Entity transfers all of its energy into a small embryotic form, lying in wait for an unsuspecting creature to devour it.

Upon being consumed, the assimilation process begins and the entity mutates its host into a giant titanic organism; "Gojira" as it has been referred to in modern times. Throughout earth's lifespan, The Gojiras have been responsible for most of earth's extinction events, the greatest of which was caused by one known as "Primordius" from the Permian/Triassic era. The monsters pollute the atmosphere sending down toxic rain and fog that poison at most 90% of life.

The one known failed instance of a Gojira Level Event was set during the late cretaceous period when the subject known as "Penultimus" was struck by an asteroid before it could fully initiate the extinction process

While the process of mutation takes roughly a few centuries to complete, due to scientific medaling, subject "Proximus" underwent scientific experimentation. The result of which caused the animal to mutate into a Gojira within a week while also creating a rather...unorthodox extinction event.

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'At a mere 25 millimeters in length, the male gossamer crystalwing (Perlucidipteryx minimus) is among the smallest of the wingles: and indeed, of all rattiles as a whole. The female, a pale emerald hue in contrast to the male's bark-like brown, is larger, but too ranks among the miniscule, small enough to perch on the end of a twig no thicker than a pencil. Being small has many advantages: they can take shelter in tiny crevices, are more agile in flight, and need far less food and water to survive: in their case, a diet comprised primarily on flymites, millimeter-long wing-less dipterans that feed on the juices of plants, and occasionally flower nectar as well. But it is not without its challenges. At such a size they have many predators, such as pterodents, ratbats, larger wingles and even insects their own scale. Their colorless, transparent wings help them in blending amongst the foliage, small males among dry twigs and tree bark and females among fresh foliage. And another constraint is reproduction: after a gestation of only 14-20 days, a single offspring is produced at a time: left entirely to the care of the male as the female is too taxed from the effort to expend any further energy.'

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'Sporting a color once nigh-unheard of in mammals, a rancid ratbit (Viridolagus foetidus) stealthily conceals itself among the multicolored flora of Gestaltia's rainbow savannah, where thornbriars, flameweed and saberleaf compete for resources, creating an ever-changing kaleidoscope of color especially when they bloom. Each of these flora have unique defenses and weapons to deal with herbivores, but the rancid ratbit has developed a tolerance, though not an outright immunity, to all of them, allowing it to feed moderately on all three while larger herbivores specialize on one of each.

The rancid ratbit likely developed its unusual coloration due to the prevalence of color vision among prey and predator animals alike, possibly caused by the presence of a second red sun that favored the success of trichromat vision. While once yellows and browns would have sufficed to hide from a dichromat predator, now it would leave them a visible target. The rancid ratbit attains this greenish shade due to two layers in its hair: a translucent outer layer that refracts blue light with microscopic structures and an inner layer with yellow pigments that mix the two into green, an adaptation shared by other species like walkabies and rattiles who also display such colors. Should its camouflage fail, however, the rancid ratbit is a swift and evasive runner, and if cornered or captured has one final last-resort defense: a set of scent glands in its rear that let off a malodorous and unappetizing secretion.'

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Birrin studies to nail down anatomy for the book project.

Their forefoot claws are excellent at sensing infrasound through the substrate. Indeed, some of their alarm systems are more like thumpers than terrestrial sirens.

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Random hypothetical throne design warmups + dev