Speculative evolution

The Age of the Metamorph Bird Clade Metamorphaves ~~~ The world of the Ultimocene is dominated by strange and wild creatures, many of them utterly alien compared to their introduced ancestors, but of all the planet's abundant life possibly no creatures are more derived than the changelings, or

Systematic: Aves (Bird), Sphenisciformes (group of Southern Hemisphere seabirds) sphéniscidé (Penguin Group and penguins), Neopygoscelis. Etymology: from the Greek "neo" new and "pygoscelis" name of the kind of penguin. The name "dentate" refers to the toothed beak of the species. Cousins ​​of the 21st century: The penguin Adelie, Pygoscelis adeliae. Excellent diver, this is the most abundant penguins. We pushed to the "extreme" its marine lifestyle imagining a half-armed and half-body…

A collection of quick sketches showcasing some of the lifeforms developed for an ongoing project in speculative evolution. Seiek is a world in which the K-PG mass extinction event never occurred.

A series of designs I created as part of the Atlantis Bestiary 2 speculative evolution community project in the Paleostream discord, ran by Joschua Knuppe. Each animal has a scientifically sound ancestor created in Phase 1, which took place in the Paleocene, and given 50 million years to diversify and evolve until the Miocene for stage 2. Atlantis is a Madagascar sized island located on the mid Atlantic ridge that has been colonized by North American and European and African genera and left…

anthro alien, speculative evolution, utility attire.

The ancestors of the terracetes were small dolphins living in the waters around an island landmass roughly equivalent in size and isolation to New Zealand. These cetaceans developed the behavior of driving their aquatic prey up onto the shore, beaching themselves in the process of catching it and then wriggling back into the water – similar to how some modern dolphins are known to intentionally beach themselves when hunting. They gradually became better and better at maneuvering themselves…

Satoshi Kawasaki is a Japanese illustrator, author, or both. Normally I try to get the facts correct, but in this case I am forced to rely on Google's translation services. While these allow us all to sample texts that would otherwise remain closed, the results are not necessarily reliable. For those who do not now how to operate the Google translation service, simply go the main Google page, and there should be something called 'language aids' or similar just to the right of the search…

Hey all! I have another entry here for the Sol'Kesh bestiary. Apologies for the watermark, I hate doing that but a friend got his art stolen for NFTs on Opensea which a really shit thing to happen to any artist. Not to say my stuff is worth stealing but whatever deters those scum.

Systematics: mollusc, cephalopod, decapod (ten arms) sepoïdae (super family of cuttlefish), family rhombosepidae. Etymology: From the Greek "rhombos" diamond (for the shape of the coat) and "sepia", cuttlefish. The name "Imperator" refers to the size and the deadly attacks of large predators. Cousin of the 21st century: Sepia officinalis, Sepia prevalent in almost every sea and ocean of the world. Size: 10 meters long (twice with the tentacles). Distribution: Distribution of Rhombosepia…