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dinodanicus · 6 months

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A portrait of beloved professor Elias Scrimshaw. Elias is one of the stranger creatures from the species exchange program. An intelligent parasitic entity that can live in and manipulate a host's body for hundreds of years. Elias's species keep active only the bodily systems that are most needed, such as those involved in locomotion and eating. The unessential parts of the body are consumed, often Reducing the host species to what is essentially an animated husk which is kept preserved with a special cocktail of antibacterial fluids produced in Elias's strange asymmetric body. His preferred field of study deals with the biomechanics and life cycles of extraterrestrial parasites. His unique perspective and insight has offered great leaps in interstellar medicine by helping provide treatments for rare and often deadly parasitic infections. Not wanting to offend his host planet he took over the form of a stray cat which he assumed to be a local source of food before realizing it was in fact a common household pet. He has since expressed his deepest apologies for this mix up and has advised cat lovers to perhaps reconsider taking his class.

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villiedoom · 3 months

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Two wandering Moonhorses in their natural habitat - the Narr-Vaan Desert ~

They are probably the most unrealistic of all my creatures, but I love these skeletal guys - they are so surreal! Through drawing or sculpting them in all the detail is such a headache… It took some courage (and sleepless nights…) to finally finish this sculpt.

Made in Blender ~

#3D #3d sculpture #3d model #creature #fantasy creature #alien creature #fictional creature #surreal #original species #personal art #blender3d #blender #moonhorse #villiedoom

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z0mbi3-c4t · 5 months

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Why u so Gneep Gnarp

#alien cat #alien creature #autism creature #cat art #weirdcore #dreamcore #Art #trans artist #queer artist

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minakomatsuoka · 7 months

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Birdbug horror

Sometimes it useful to turn around, you never know if you are alone in the dark…

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Creatures created by @iguanodont

#alien creature #art #speculative evolution #creature #illustration #spec bio #birgworld #horror

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grapejuicedragoon · 4 months

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when the company lethal this game is fun

#lethal company #bracken #eyeless dog #baboon hawk #hoarding bug #alien creature #lethal company fanart

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geepranks · 5 months

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I seriously want to know what this little guy's problem was.

#scavengers reign #hollow #art #alien creature

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crushedvelvetheart · 5 months

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mecharex2 · 5 months

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A Sky Sultan drifts lazily through the blue sky, feeding on detritus thrown up by the shearing winds

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whereserpentswalk · 3 months

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You're staying on a spaceship for a year for college reasons. It's pretty far from earth, but there are a few humans, not many but a few.

Your roommate isn't human though. She's from a species you've never seen before, she's bipedal and two armed but that's kind of where her humanoid traits end. The most noticeably strange thing about her is that she doesn't have eye, at first you think they're hidden, but you realize that she just doesn't have them.

As you talk more she explains to you that her species is one of the few to never evolve sight, the closest thing that have to seeing is echolocation. When you first hear about it you feel kind of sorry for her, she's not like, disabled, her body interacts with the world in a way that doesn't require eyes, but there's still a lot that she misses that you wish you could show her.

She's one of the few beings on the ship that can't appreciate the view of the stars, or of newrby planets. She can't ever look at a painting, or fully watch a movie. She's your roommate so you talk to her a lot, and sometimes you'll want to show her things and you just can't.

Of course she sees most other species as having worse vision then her. She doesn't need light to use echolocation, and she can detect things is basically any direction with it. She doesn't care about things like colors or stars in the sky, since her brain doesn't even have the ability to understand that type of thing. It's hard to feel sorry for her when you realize that, though it takes time to shake the idea that she's lesser.

There's media from her planet she can't show you because you can't echolocate. You end up telling eachother about things you can't actually experience sometimes. It's nice just telling stories, both of your species stopped having much oral storytelling due to technology, it's nice getting to do it again.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #my worldbuilding #writing #my writing #alien #alien species #aliens #alien creature #alien civilization #scifi #science fiction #science fantasy #blindness

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space-blue · 26 days

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Distant cousins of the jungle's stingbat, the aptly named stunbat (Tsealìm in Na'vi) is a native of the Txepìva volcanic plains that hunts by diving from great heights and colliding with their prey head-first, stunning them.

Their head is blunt, with a threefold crest reminiscent of the great leonopterix's dual one, but significantly more ossified. Their neck is thick and muscular, to help support the structure, but also to weather the high velocity impacts.

The hands, small and with fused fingers in jungle stingbats, are much larger here, and used to catch stunned prey falling from the sky, or pick them off the ground as they swoop down. It also allows stunbats to eat on the fly, as it were, as the plains' chaotic environment doesn't always provide them with safe perching opportunities.

Stunbats have short, prehensile neural queues that retract under thick, keratinous neck frills. The extra mobility of this limb allows them to make quick connections while in mid-air, front to back, back to back, or belly to belly, the latter being the more commonly seen one, accompanied by a stabilising "handshake".

The stunbat's vision is excellent. Early research by Eyris Makri with the Tuin clan of the Txepìva showed that their domesticated stunbats were able to spot prey up to 4 miles away, seeing clearly at ten times the distance of their Na'vi handlers. Their primary eyes show a high concentration of foveas, giving them enough focus to clearly distinguish prey moving against the complex backdrop of the plains and lava fields.

Although the stunbat's barbed tail has lost most of its poisonous sting, it is still used in defence against larger predators. Their best defence, however, remains a Na'vi bow.

It is hard to tell exactly when domestication started, though the olo'eyktan of the Tau'un clan claims one of his ancestors was the first to tame a stunbat. We're told this happened during the "Time of Long Nights", but dating that event is equally complicated. Current estimations are a minimum of two millenia.

During that time, the stunbat's range remained tied to the volcanic plains of the Txepìva clans, although the species has been observed by Serafiina Hukkala as far out as Mons St. Helen. One must note that the stunbat is unlike our previous study case of the Viperhound, which are bred for various purposes. Interviews with Txepìva hunters (Makri et al.) suggest that their relationship to the Na'vi is similar to that of cats and humans, with multiple domestication events, beneficial to both species. Na'vi led breeding appears to be very incidental, as stunbats tend to fly off to find mates in the wild, rather than mating among their clan's flock.

This species is significantly larger than their forest cousins.

The most common uses of stunbats are for scouting and hunting. While hunting of small game is extremely similar to what humans once achieved with eagles, stunbats also take part in hunting expeditions for large prey.

They are used to follow the movements of herds, but also to help separate young calves from their mothers, or the weak and wounded, by dive bombing them (Hukkala et al.) They understand complex orders, communicate with clicks and shrieks, and will come to hang on the queue or harness of their paired Txepìva to share more detailed visuals through Tsaheylu.

This is also how they are used for scouting. Serafiina Hukkala postulated that the stunbats' mated pair lifestyle influenced Txepìva culture by making the act of scouting a couple's task. Scouting, we must remind the reader, is a lot more crucial to the Txepìva, who have no qualms waging war against each other for the domination of water sources and fertile land. Raiding parties, while not frequent, are a banal part of life on the plains. Even small children learning to work with stunbats will be sent on sentry duties, often on the back of a Lenonin Hound.

The reason mated pairs of stunbats are favoured is because of their long flight range and their ability to connect together in mid-air. This means one side of the couple can move far ahead, and report back to their partner, already extended to the edge of their range. A couple of scouting stunbats effectively covers double the range a single hunter would.

Stunbats are occasionally used to communicate with similar techniques. While one half of a pair can be sent to deliver a message to another tribe, the other remains with their clan (often brooding). The homing individual (whichever has best endurance, as both sexes feed and brood chicks at will) can find its way back to them even if the clan is on the move. More research is needed on their communication capabilities.

When travelling or staying in temporary camps, stunbats are housed in loose baskets designed to let them hang onto the side. These carriers are custom made by every clan and come in many forms and sizes. Brooding stunbats are carried, either by a Na'vi who will fashion straps to turn the basket into a backpack, or tied to the back of Leonin Hounds.

In more permanent camps, the Texpiva craft treillis to give them places to hang from. Serafiina Hukkala reported a clan that arranged dried branches and material for firewood as perches, while Eyris Makri stayed with a couple who fashioned fake branches at the top of their tents, like rafters. Both heard reports of clans that house their stunbats along with their livestock, but the practice seemed frowned upon.

The bond between Na'vi and Tsealìm needs further study. It isn't as exclusive as with an ikran, but much more complex than with direhorses. Stunbats bond strongly with a small family node, and more weakly with the extended family and friend group. Tsaheylu is typically only done with their main Na'vi hunters, although the stunbat can be introduced and passed down to children.

Emergency tsaheylu was witnessed twice by Makri, when a scout had urgent reports and the stunbat was sent ahead. Connection was made with the clan's tsahìk, who had a habit of bonding with every newborn stunbat. The practice, we were told, can be controversial.

Hunter depicted without ornaments, to highlight the process of Tsaheylu.

Some clans craft harnesses for hunters to better carry and support their stunbats, while others prefer natural body-to-body contact. The folding or tying of the neural queue to allow for better access to the kuru/tendrils seems universal among all interviewed hunters and scouts. Different styles were observed and will be presented in our published notebooks, after our paper on the use of stunbats in skirmishes and outright warfare, as the Txepìva practice it.

Part II of @straydaddy (art and design) and @bluedaddysgirl (lore concept + final art entry) in-world collaborative study, "Introduction to the Txepiva clans, their nomadic pastoralism and niche selective breeding practices in species of stingbats and viperwolves". On twitter we are Knarme and Bluedaddysgirl

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egyptianguard · 10 months

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#silly cats #i think this is a cat?#cats pics #alien #cat alien #alien cat #alien creature #wunkus #sci fi horror

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dinodanicus · 2 months

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An abyssal flabbergast scooping up ocean detritus in its spoon like mouthparts.

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villiedoom · 4 months

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✨Albus, the Cosmic Spirit✨

This drawing is old (from 2018), but I still love it ~

According to the original legend, he is the spirit of infinity, a plus and a minus at the same time. In one of my old ideas, he is an ancient cosmic spirit who fell from space, and all the Vaeraf souls are pieces of him.

(This drawing is personal and related to my world and its lore)