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I can post one (1) drawing of a niche speculative zoology book, as a treat

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Happy Lunar New Year! Today marks the official transfer of power between celestial generals and their respective animals. Gone is the water rabbit, so it’s time to welcome the wood dragon. I hope you all have a prosperous and luck filled year of the dragon!  

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Fun fact:

Hyenas, if kept in cold climates, will grow shaggy coats in the winter

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A two for one post today.

Dragon posts for Smaugust.

The Maple Leaf Drake is a small to medium sized woodland dragon that populates temperate forests across the globe. Their unique body morphology allows them to hide, almost seamlessly, amongst vast maple forests. This physiological adaptation also extends to seasonal color changes throughout the year. They will live their lives hidden amongst the leaves, using their long proboscis bill to pierce through the bark of Maple Trees to extract the sweet sap, which makes up the majority of it’s diet. 

Incredibly skittish, the Fearful Precious Red Coral Drake lives it’s life hidden amongst Red Coral. It’s long proboscis-like mouth snatching up small unsuspecting pray. 

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Sophonts for a shiny new project ✨ Beatha (bay-ha) ✨, an alternate earth set a couple thousand years ago

The first species (green bg), Lau, are offshoots of Indriidae and are most closely related to sifakas. They originate in Madagascar but now occupy most of the continent of Africa.

The second (yellow bg) are a species of wallaby (yet to be named). They originate in the East coast of Australia, now occupying most of the country as well as most of Asia and some Pacific Islands. They are the earliest sophonts.

Finally, the Kepa-ka-o-o, an ancient relative of corvids. They originate in Aotearoa, with many relatives across the Pacific Islands which they now also live across. They have many colonies in Australia and Asia, having a close relationship with the wallaby sophont.

Despite the distance, it's not uncommon to see Lau living in Asia and Oceania and vice versa. The Americas and Europe aren't completely untouched but they don't hold very large populations of the three sophonts due to their mostly colder climate which is not preferred, however there are colonies quickly growing in South America in particular.

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A ray-finned (actinopterygian) River Zora.

Unlike his cartilaginous (chondrichthyan) relatives, he and the other males turn red in the spring. They also gets very aggressive.

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The Shame-Faced Boulder Crab (Calappa pseudopetra) is a large species of rock-mimicking crustacean.

Found in beaches and cliffs, they use their inconspicuous appearance to blend in and patiently wait for prey to approach them. When the moment is right, they strike for the kill.

Due to their heavy exoskeleton, adult C. pseudopetra rarely move during their lifetimes. To avoid expending energy, they will let themselves be pushed by the tide to slowly move. They will only voluntarily leave their hiding spot once, as their final effort, to find a mate.

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NEW ALIEN

I call them Ocira. They're a sort of combination of seals and octopus. They're eusocial and very kind

That wrinkly thing on their chest are their gills, which they can use to express certain emotions.

Their "teeth" are truly spines that can be raised to eat meat, or flattened to chomp plants.

To communicate, they do a sort of drumming and pinching of their swim bladders for different tones and squeaks.

They live on an ocean planet, in shallow, warm waters around reefs.

I might draw them more and tell more about them 😸

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The Takin is such a whimsical herbivore, like God commissioned Dr. Seuss for this one.

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Another one of my entries for the "REFUGIUM" guidebook - bipedal extrasolar arthropods! Our campaign hits the two week mark today, and we're standing at a whopping 199% funded with 638 backers - consider joining us here !

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YOOO! Just finished reading @narrans ‘s story ‘my borrowed son’ and decided to draw the adorable MC Parker! Check it out

Isn’t he the cutest thing

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My take on Flatwoods Monster I adore the idea of a barn-owl design for her, just like the illustration of the theory of what it could have been, but I really wanted to do a mantis-like take.

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Flatwoods Monster

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~who is she~ I love the flatwoods monster, such a cute and fashionable cryptid/alien visitor! Also supposedly flanked by some smelly vapors, hm.... My shop

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Getting out of the comfort zone can be uncomfortable.

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"What would an ice age unicorn look like?"

Little concept sketch I made of a proto-unicorn. Put some bits of yak elements, smaller horse stature, and overall fluffier fur. Would you risk petting this boi?

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Andrea and Romeo redesigns.