#Snouters

[pradaldi]

I've been a long time fans of Rhinogrades, or Snouters, so I decided to invent my own, for fun. Monorrhina Rota is my modest contribution to the big family of the rhinogradentians. Living on the slopes of Hi-iay islands, Monorrhina Rota (or Hoop Mouse) can tie its exceptionally long nose to its tail, forming a wheel. Using its long posterior limbs and gravity the souter can roll downhill to escape predators. Monorrhina Rota is sometime quite rudely nicknamed the "butt sniffer". Print > https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/gpradel/ Process > https://www.patreon.com/posts/104728628 Darren Naish wrote a nice article about the Snouters on tetzoo. https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/10/8/snouters-or-rhinogradentians

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Some more #paleostream sketches.

Although these don't have much paleo in them, you see here some of my interpretations of various Rhinogrades, a fictional mammal clade and one of the oldest instances of speculative evolution.

[dragonthunders01]

Spec evo Vault, Shaggyfaced Snouter

From the mountainous regions of one of the Hy-yi-yi islands, the Shaggyfaced Snouter was remarkable for being one of the largest rhinogrades ever, reaching more than a meter in height standing on their robust nasal appendages, which is a result of the lack of competitors they were the extreme of gigantism from this bizarre group of mammals.

These large pillar snout walkers inhabited the island of Mittuddinna located south east of the archipelago, it once belong to the clade of Hexarrhinida, but being relative of smaller flower mimic species and strange ambush ground dwelling sedentary creatures.

These magnificent creatures were found gathering in small groups headed by large males, followed by younger ones and females that using their silver tails are capable to provoke a response to the younger males. They were slow herbivores that feed on the roots of the plant Mammontopsisitos dauciradix.

[jfs-worldbuilding-and-art]

Specposium's Spectember day 24: Pre-Dougal Dixon spec

Dougal Dixon for those who don't know is considered the Father of spec evo and spec bio, its work (After man) is what popularized the genre , however there are many other books and authors that came before him and did spec evo such as H.G. Wells, etc. I myself consider The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades to be the first dedicated Spec.

It was originally published in Germany 1957 by Gerolf Steiner and described the Archipelago of Hy-yi-yi in the Southern Pacific where a unique order of mammals-the Rhinogrades or Snouters- lived.

In the book it is said that the archipelago is very safe for the lack of any large predators(if i remember correctly). But what if it wasn't the case?

Here we have Carnomammontops cursoreus, a relative of the Mammontops but more derived and specialized for a different diet, carnivory. It has a huge head compared to its body and forward-facing eyes used to focus on its prey, other rhinogrades. It is in fact a cursorial animal, in other words adapted for running. It uses the first two pairs of nasaria(the noses) to run in an accelerated pace compared to other snouters, using the last pair to wound the flanks or the nasaria of its prey, causing them to die from blood loss or by falling respectively, in the latter the predator kills its prey by climbing ontop of the fallen prey and deal a fatal bite to the neck.

[harpagornis]

The classification of snouters within Mammalia

By now everyone is familiar with the snouters, fictional members of the clade Rhinogradentia. Originally described by Harald Stümpke, these animals were described prior to breakthroughs in genetic studies, and thus were not described as anything other than "shrew-like" (Stümpke 1961). Due to the near-total extinction of this clade, phylogenetic studies have been delayed considerably, and the clade is not featured in mammal wide studies (i.e. Stanhoppe 1998).

Luckily, a few Antarctic offshore clades have provided genetic evidence at long last.

As it appears, Rhinogradentia is sister taxa to Theria. They diverged from therians in the early Jurassic, possibly from forms akin to Vincelestes that once roamed Gondwanna. Because the only material we have is from marine worm-like species, we cannot say for certain about the divergence of the many extinct clades from the Hi-yi-yi archipelago, but judging by mutation rates we can assume that, just like placentals and crown birds, they diversified rapidly after the KT event.

For now, the evidence is limited, but it seems clear that these mammals were not only the product of adaptive radiation on islands, but likely joining other groups during the KT aftermath.

Geological evidence suggests that the Hi-yi-yi archipelago was often submerged across the Cenozoic (Cupcakke 2013), so who knows how many adaptive radiations these animals went through.

If only we had more...

[junoniadoesart]

Pliocene by Cosmo Sheldrake needs to become the International Anthem of Speculative Biology.

The sheer vibes that this song exudes. It fits every speculative biology project I can imagine. From big-budget movies like the MonsterVerse and Cameron’s Avatar to web projects like Serina and Nijin-Konai. All Tomorrows and All Yesterdays. Two Sky River. Strange World. Hamster’s Paradise. Snaiad. Darwin IV. Rhinogradentia. Subnautica. Tales from the Loop. Amphiterra. The Cluster. Polinices. More. All of it.  Have a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0srKjwRJwc

[joostytheboosty]

Wolf snout drawing on paper

[troythecatfish]

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[fundulopanchmax]

So I will get a bit off topic as I will talk about terrestial fish aka tetrapods but wait the story is worth it! So if leaf through a book on zoology you will find all kinds of weird stuff. Snails that wear an iron plate armor, Beetles that are to tough for needles, crickets that can jump on water, crustaceans that can parasitise another crustaceans inside out and change the hosts sex, so on and so forth. And sometimes the book will contain something especially weird and very niche. What I mean by that is a group of mammals that evolved appandages on their noses to move with it! Some evolve an appendage to jump:

Some developed tentacles to walk:

This little group is called the snouters or rhinogradentia and they have been found on the bikini atoll after the devastating tests for atom bomb tool place. Unfortunately there are no photos or holotypes of them because they don't exist! I don't mean it like they don't exist anymore, I mean it in a "they were completely made up" kind of way! But we can still find very serious chapters on them in academic text books as a little easter egg and as a kind of in joke for the people who know their german 19th/20th century poetry! Christian Morgenstern wrote:

Das Nasobēm

Auf seinen Nasen schreitet

einher das Nasobēm,

von seinem Kind begleitet.

Es steht noch nicht im Brehm.

Es steht noch nicht im Meyer.

Und auch im Brockhaus nicht.

Es trat aus meiner Leyer

zum ersten Mal ans Licht.

Auf seinen Nasen schreitet

(wie schon gesagt) seitdem,

von seinem Kind begleitet,

einher das Nasobēm.

Shitty translation:

The nasobem

On its nose walking

The nasobem

Accompanied by its child

It is not mentioned in the brehm

It is not found in the meyer

Not in the brockhaus as well

It stepped out of my lyre

Into the light

Walking on its nose

(Like i said) accompanied by its child

The nasobem.

So yeah if you see some outrageous stuffed animals of something mouse like walking on its nose or something like that you can be sure that its the definitely real tm snouter in the flesh.

And people say that zoomogists have no sense of humor

[a-book-of-creatures]

Sneef?

Snorf.