#rapax

[danielanoitz]

Sensational Discovery, the Homo Rapax

For a long time, anthropologists thought that Homo Sapiens Sapiens was the most highly developed human species. This still applies. As an upright naked ape, humans have the largest brain among primates and can describe themselves accordingly. What makes the latest discovery seem so sensational, however, is the contradiction to all previous teachings, because all scientists agreed – which is rare…

[dccsoftair]

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[psykersomatic]

[sophireal]

big ol brickity bracken

[featherstonevintage]

Top coat: Marithe Francois Girbaud Kimono coat: Kenzo Sweater: Opox Rapax

Marie France, November 1984

Photographed by Christian Moser

[rk-x-yz]

It must be fed

[raw-wild]

Tawny Eagle | copper

[doorrobloxstuff]

Tell us more about Quarry!Seek!!!! I love The Harvesters from Vita Carnis and want to know more about the Harvester/Seek love child!!!

Stuff I can disclose:

Seek is located deep in a phosphate quarry sucking out the nutrients from the earth and the dead people they toss into it.

There’s slip and slides were the other entities send corpses or tied up living people into THE PIT (must always be all caps. Don’t ask why.) to help feed Seek and make it grow.

They were looted from a nearby abandoned store.

Sometimes the kids will slide on them and jump into the pit for fun. They’ll always land in Seek’s mass safely because it can tell friend from food.

That’s annoying.

Rush and Ambush and the rest of the polycule will do the same.

That’s..a tad less annoying.

There’s an elevator that goes directly into the pit. There’s no reason for them to jump into it at ALL.

Has those fun little fanged bits and tendrils and tendrils that liquify people alive harvester style.

Grows citrus or pomegranate-like fruit that’s apart of its body. There’s a large area near THE PIT called The Grove were these “black trees” reside and grow said fruit, which provide nutrition for other entities and attract prey.

Snare lives in here :)

VERY large, is only outmatched by God!Seek in size.

Might be a different color then regular Seek due to the phosphate. Maybe more greyish because Phosphate in it’s natural is white-??

Rafflesia throws used car batteries into there. /j..unless

[richo1915]

[reredram]

The Rapax - also known as Monk - is ready! Now it's up to Survivor to find his lost sib

[starlitmeadows]

y'know what? i think i'll just post all of my Bracken art even though some of it is not so pretty

from oldest to newest!

ref translation below (i'm too lazy to edit the ref in english whoop sorry)

leaves rise to intimidate prey. lowered when at rest

extra joint

forehead eyebrow cheekbone parietal bone temporal bone fused upper and lower jaw + nasal bone skull sutures + Rapax-folium specimens don't have jaws so all the sutures of the skull are connected motionlessly

???vibrissae for reading oscillations and vibrations??? (<- got too silly)

[tabiwabi]

Bracken - Rapax-folium

Just wanted to do a piece for my favorite(?) lethal company creature :) I’m scared of them. But they’re also fun <3

[alphynix]

Spectember/Spectober 2023 #09: Things With Wings

(Apologies for the abrupt absence – I'm okay, just having everything break down at once. This is fine.)

So— back to the speculative evolution request list!

@thebigdeepcheatsy requested a "cactus-dwelling/germinating evolution of introduced rosy-faced lovebirds":

While Agapornis cheatsyi is still quite physically similar to its introduced ancestors, this lovebird has developed a close symbiotic relationship with the cactus Carnegiea ornipolis, a descendant of the modern saguaro.

Naturally fasciated, this cactus grows a splaying fan-like crown which the lovebirds excavate their shallow nest burrows into. Feeding on the cactus' fruit in early summer, the lovebirds then disperse the seeds via their droppings – a process that significantly improves propagation chances, both due to the birds commonly foraging and defecating around suitable nurse plants and the passage through their gut speeding up germination.

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Someone calling themself "LB" asked for some "flying afrotherians":

Elbeitandraka venenifer is a descendant of tree-climbing Malagasy tenrecs that developed gliding membranes – and its lineage is now just about achieving true powered flight.

About 25cm long (~10"), its proportionally short broad wings require it to fly very fast to generate enough lift for its weight. It mostly only actively flies when traveling between roosts and feeding sites (or when escaping from threats), alternating between gliding to save energy and flapping to recover altitude.

It's an opportunistic omnivore, crawling around in the tree canopy foraging for vegetation, fruits, fungi, invertebrates, and the occasional smaller vertebrate, using its flexible sengi-like nose to probe around in crevices.

Much like modern common tenrecs it's capable of hibernating for months at a time through periods of scarce food availability. It also accumulates alkaloid toxins in its body from its arthropod prey, advertising its unpalatability to predators with bold contrasting warning coloration on its wing membranes.

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And here's a combination of a couple of anonymous requests for both "flying heterodontosaurs" and "dragons with hind leg wings, a la sharovipteryx":

Inversodraco rapax is a highly specialized Jurassic descendant of heterodontosaurids that took to climbing and gliding, developing delta-wing-like membranes on their hindlimbs convergently similar to those of the earlier sharovipterygids.

Around 75cm long (~2'6"), it has unusually flexible hip joints for a dinosaur, able to splay its legs out to the sides to deploy wings supported by an elongated outer toe on each foot. Its arms form small forewings for stability, and its long tail ends in a vane of stiffened feathers that aid in steering.

Unlike its herbivorous-to-omnivorous ancestors it's primarily a carnivore, swooping down onto small prey and grabbing it with its talon-like forelimbs.

[featherstonevintage]

Teddy coat: Odile Lançon Sweater: Opox Rapax Cashmere shawl: Hermès Sunglasses: Persol

Marie France, November 1984

Photographed by Christian Moser

[rk-x-yz]

The baby ~

[raw-wild]

Tawny Eagle | Nick Dale Photography