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teethands · 1 year

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ive been really sick with tonsillitis. ive also been really itching to start my own speculative biology art project. these scratchy, rough scraps are the results of the past week ive spent brewing over an idea for a species that has been in my head, and though they arent entirely presentable, i plan to expand on them exponentially in the coming year

the first image is the most recent design for their faces. they are an intelligent, bipedal, aerial species that primarily communicate through the nasal crest on their head, of which is highly complex and muscled, allowing very thorough control of airflow and vocalization.

ive known what i wanted them to sound like since i first settled on a bodyplan; the above sound, the "high-altitude call", is made from the call of a channel-billed cuckoo and cassowary with some distortion. they are carnivorous and hunt larger prey in packs at particularly high altitudes, and i imagine this is the type of call they would utilize to communicate with eachother the presence of suitable game.

in their present day, they struggle to survive a recent and devastating P-TR like extinction event. though once high-fliers their skies have been blanketed with black dust, and to cope with the simultaneous severe heat and freezing cold of spontaneous global warming they attempt to move underground for a better chance at survival. more on that later.

#kind of like if a parasaurlophus and an ahzdarchid had babies #rorys art #speculative evolution #speculative biology #spec evo #spec bio #alien #im struggling to come up with one single coat style for them so im thinking ill just like. make dos and donts for myself on whats-#-plausible and what kind of markings they can have #the skin on the inside of their crest right above their eye is very colorful though. it puffs out when they vocalize #also they are definitely going to find something that they dont want to find when they tunnel down. if you read this far. heres a treat #skirls

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