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Another peek into the world of Monoculi, with a sort of mostly arboreal leech. Compressible, elastic spines and muscular extensions of the respiratory system give them a spring-like speed for seizing prey and hopping around. These animals comprise a diverse family of mouse to housecat sized predators, and are known by an equal array endemic names, with meanings like “vine which bites”, “snapping worm” or “flying tree-branch”. Most live in tree canopies or within the branching “roots” of bio-caves, a habitat type unique to this planet’s biome.

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"4chan OP is based AF" -trans biologist

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Did not now that.

Very cool.

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i forgot to post drawings from previous flocking, which means there will be lots of drawings in one post!! all roughly 30min, i worked on them a bit more after streams. id in alt :)

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OML those legs are crazy 0.0!

tribute to jerboas

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Well, holy sht.

Definitely will check her work out

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

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Way back when you first posted your cool weird DnD dragons, I think you mentioned something about them maybe being eusocial with kobolds and maybe dragonborn acting as different biological casts and I honestly think about that idea a lot. When you wrote that, were you imagining these kobolds being just as anatomically weird as the dragons whose colony they were a part of?

I’ve actually drawn kobolds before, but I’ve changed some things about their designs and lore since then.

They have a few different castes, not all of which are present in every dragon, and certain castes can change into others. For example, most kobolds are born as quadrupedal Carriers, which act as couriers and assistants to Manuals, which are the bipedal worker caste and second phase of development. A favorite kobold may also be metamorphosed by its parent into a winged drone, which grows significantly taller and acts as scout, messenger, and lover to other dragons. The appearance and unusual sociality of drones has led many layfolk to mistake them for half-dragons, which are almost unheard of in chromatic lineages. Metallics, which are more prone to interacting directly with nondragons are far more likely to produce hybrid offspring. Some species also develop larger “warrior” caste kobolds (swolbolds)

The illustration depicts blue dragon kobolds, which possess a hornlike antenna for locating conspecifics, calling for help, and finding their way home. Brass dragons, which wander the same habitats, will occasionally steal blue kobolds for service by mimicking their Queen’s psychic signal.

Honorable mention to fairy kobolds, which are the mixed bag of smallfolk varmints that metallics commonly press into service. These creatures readily find their ways into dragon lairs through the same liminal byways used to slip between material space and the faewild. Like the faewild, dragon lairs are high magic environments, and often conveniently close to human dwellings to forage from. But it comes at a cost: fairies are a magic rich snack for a dragon, so they have to adapt fast. Using their innate knack for glamouring to blend into a lair’s unique aesthetic, a fairy will begin working to protect and furnish its home as they would in any other dwelling which ultimately serves the interests of the dragon. If the dragon notices them at that point, it usually tolerates them bumming in its house.

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A phonetic alphabet for sperm whales proposed by Daniela Rus, Antonio Torralba and Jacob Andreas.

The open-access study published in Nature Communications titled 'Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations', has analysed sperm whale vocalizations and as part of that, a phonetic 'alphabet' has been proposed for them.

So cool. Dolphins next please.

MIT news also did an article on this

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WHY ARE YOU MARKED RED ON SHINIGAMI, WTF DID U DO

i cant even post moths anymore. because of woke

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Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!

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What did we do to deserve Bill Nye

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I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

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Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

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I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

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Well sht, this makes for such an awesome showcase for these artists.

I love the diversity in styles and vision.

Credit to gachimushi for introducing the shrimp that not only managed to survive all the way from 21 to 51 but also launched an incredibly successful singing career before being overshadowed by Crab.

I love how it ends in what I assume to be an apocalypse type event.

Also the suns puking melted cheese XD

hey remember that 7-month, 36-artist game of art telephone i hosted last year? well hold onto your assholes and prepare for:

SEE IT ALL HERE!

there's also no reasonable way of fitting all of the submissions into a single tumblr post without crushing all the detail out of everything to satisfy the 30-image limit per post so i'm gonna have to make a whole chain to feature all the kickass art:

1-3: @bedupolker @psshaw @slabmangrave

4-6: @bruneburg @whip-o-will @thedancingemu

7-9: @odetoscavengers @tickflea @deadlydaemondraws

10-12: @charseraph @biomechanicalmush @ungeziefer

13-15: @barabones @threeleggedart @phanta-friends

16-18: @snejkha @librivore42 @edenartfactory

19-21: @lymphwyrm @palossssssand @gachimushi

22-24: umberfossil justagoldfish @pinkbat5

25-27: @solidagold @nutspider elixer

DON'T REBLOG YET WE'RE NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH!!!

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Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti

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I want to call this cursed but I cant bring myself to do so.

“Birgworld is Mine”

- Ss’wassoume Miku