#iamthekaijuking

[dappercritter]

"Even as a child running scared with my family as it demolished our neighbourhood, I always wondered, 'Why?' Why does Godzilla exist? Why is he so angry at us?' I don't know if I'll ever find all the answers to these questions in my lifetime, but I want to try! As long as I'm alive and the kaiju are part of our world, I want to know and I want to share. That is my dream." - Audio excerpt from Akira Nakajima's job interview with KAMI's biology lab transcripted.

@iamthekaijuking did this sweet redesign for ChaosGoji a few months back but due to the two of us being preoccupied with less than fun things at the time we never shared it.

Since it's Godzilla Day and I don't have any major updates to share yet, I thought I'd change that and give you all a new look at our very own Godzilla!

(redesign details below)

In short, King just rid of goji’s chest protrusion to make him more hydrodynamic and gave him chest plating. I approved since I felt CG's underside felt a little bare before but I wasn't sure if I was being nitpicky or not.

(and I'm very nitpicky)

Anyways REMEMBER TO LIKE AND FOLLOW KAIJUKING'S TUMBLR AND SUPPORT HIM ON HIS PATREON

[kaijuthespacemaniraptorian]

Doobie Chibi flesh god!

oh and chibi kaiju is here too i guess!

another fanart for the awesome @iamthekaijuking cause he deserves it hes amazing!

[humansbgone]

Do the crazy ants ruling over formicosa city have parasite macrovolutes? What’s life like for parasitic macrovolutes?

Spoilers! ;)

[revretch]

I’m a day late with this but a big reason why our line of synapsids and a few other tetrapods lost the parietal eye is because as our brains became more and more complex and started growing and specializing certain parts, the part of the brain that the parietal eye connected to, the epithalamus, got covered up!

A gross mistake! (Thank you for the explanation though)

[is-the-post-reliable]

Can you double check assuming-dinosaur/673232144545579008/bogleech-revretch-iamthekaijuking? It seems pretty legit, but I'd appreciate some specific sources listed for reference. Thank you so much for your hard work!

checking this one out now!

[spritebloom]

It's the New Year! So have all the blogs that helped me (somewhat) with my spec evo project, as well as cool blogs in general! I also made a similar post on @octahedral-chaos and @octastims.

@charseraph : Awesome worldbuidling and creature design. Also the crowns are adorable.

@jayrockin : Awesome worldbuilding, spec evo AND character design! Love the centaurs!

@alexriesart : Very, VERY in-depth worldbuilding and spec evo stuff. Birrins are very cool.

@extrajigs : Really cool creature design and thought out worldbuilding. Love the chimeras' design.

@delta-hexagon : Very cool art and alien designs. Also very rad In general.

@iamthekaijuking : Awesome at biology AND spec evo stuff! Love the ask-thingies about random biology stuff.

@wbqotd : Worldbuilding stuff! Very useful for getting ideas for your project, but don't know which part to focus on.

@mbari-blog/ @montereybayaquarium : Deep sea stuff! Absolutely awesome and you guys should support them... plus the "Into The Deep" exhibits look awesome.

@nasa : Space stuff! Pretty good for figuring out the actual planet AND star system your alien story/ project thing is taking place on.

[bonboro]

Fanged wywern evolutionary tree.

(One part of the larger MH evolutionary tree project) 

 Please leave a comment, i want your speculation on the subject and what type of monster you want to see next.

also thank to @iamthekaijuking for the help on this tree!

The description of the classification branch 

Identified by large,bulky body and horn. 

Identified by reptile like body. 

Identified by slender shape, and body design for quick movement.

Reptile fanged wywern that form a social behavior for mating or hunting. 

Reptile fanged wywern that solitary in nature. 

Known as "Garon" family. Consist of medium size, extremly aggressive fanged wywern.

The brach of species of fanged wywern that quiet specialize in climbing surface and posess a membrane that allow them to glide.

The ??? group description

? (on the top left): The group of grounded dragon that possible to related to fanged wywern but the connection still unclear

[krmoaten-blog]

Hello all from UHC's latest Video about legiana

it's been great talking things over with him and theory crafting for the video, as well as providing him with the art and photos he used for his video, and I'm very much looking forward to collaborating with him and @iamthekaijuking again, especially when the muse is in full swing

Art Used: Frozen Hazing, Watch The Frozen Skies, Duel of the Frozen Skies

I may not have a Patreon or a Ko-Fi, but i appreciate the support I get from showcasing my art and whatever i spitball when it comes to monster behavior and creating these beloved pieces that i have so much fun making and pouring out of my imagination.

Thanks for coming over, and thanks for watching UHC's video, check it out if you haven't already and i'll probably be working on my next work, if you have any miscellaneous theories about legiana or other monsters i feature in my works, don't hesitate to let me know in reblogs and comments.

I also talk Kamen Rider and other stuff, but i can't promise to be active all the time and whatever else UHC needs, i'll be sure to get it out there if my well hasn't been ran dry by myself

[eternal-gromnommer]

Hi! I've seen some of your amazing The Eternal Cylinder spec evo art on @iamthekaijuking 's page. Do you mind if I share these links on the TEC Discord and credit you?

https://iamthekaijuking.tumblr.com/post/666650667564269568/a-bunch-of-gaaahrs-a-savannah-browser-a-smaller

https://iamthekaijuking.tumblr.com/post/666509945557123072/the-stomatotheridae-are-a-clade-of-large-animals

https://iamthekaijuking.tumblr.com/post/667663037203955712/anon-sorry-to-hear-youve-been-having-a-rough

Sure thing! As long as you credit it's all good :)

[bunjywunjy]

Is big bird an apex predator

not at all! as we can tell from his general behavior and repeated comments about how delicious birdseed is, Big Bird is a megafauna herbivore and a keystone of the Sesame Street ecosystem!

Big Bird is too large to be challenged by the predatory muppets, so he can browse where he pleases, and in doing so he opens up spaces and opportunities for the smaller muppets, both predatory and non-predatory alike!

[monster-creator-12]

Will you be able to make that post about the ecosystem of hender’s island? Because I’d really like to see it.

Sorry about the delay I had to reread a parts of fragment to get a better idea of the ecosystem within.

Okay so when talking about ecosystems and trophic levels the first thing to establish is the energy source for said ecosystem. In this case its easy, the energy source for Hender’s Island is the same as 99% of the rest of the planet, the sun. From there we then have to establish two things, primary producers and micro-fauna. Hender’s Island actually does have pretty well established flora and florafauna those being the “clover/lichen” and the disk ant trees. Both are eaten by most of the other lifeforms on Hender’s Island and in turn also act as the primary decomposer in the case of the clover. As shown by Hender’s house their are other, smaller and more docile species of florafauna and flora but these seem to be partially domesticated and as such shouldn’t be counted with the rest of the ecosystem. Of course the house tree’s themselves are fully domesticated and exist outside the greater ecosystem so again they shouldn’t be counted. Hender’s Island does also have a massive variety of microorganisms such as the armored worms found in the soil and the planktonic larva of the rest of the islands inhabitants. Now I say planktonic that's me coming up with the closest analog to what's going on in Hender’s Island. Honestly fragment as a book is unrealistic when it comes the biomechanics of many of its organisms but its ecosystem isn’t the most far fetched thing in the world, its just overly exaggerated compared to the actual ecosystem its based on. 

Hender’s Island is a marine ecosystem moved to dry land, complete with plankton, predators eating predators, interspecies cannibalism, extremely durable wildlife, and florafauna. Most species on Hender’s Island have extremely fast reflex's, are basically made of muscle and nerve endings, and move in a 3d environment more so like aquatic life than traditional terrestrial life. Not only that Hender’s Island isn’t just a marine habitat placed on land, I would go as far to say that it is a planktonic marine habitat scaled up. Zooplankton is fascinating in that it is chock full of all sorts of amazing and horrifying lifeforms which do frequently hunt and eat each other. Even species traditionally classified as phytoplankton have evolved to hunt and consume one another and even zooplankton. Disk ants for example are basically just a crab trying to become coral. They start out as moving predators that when conditions are right root themselves down, metamorphosis into a “tree” state and then live out the rest of their days as photosynthetic predators, feeding on smaller organisms that pass by and gaining nutrients from sunlight, probable through symbiotic cyanobacteria or algae, or maybe some microscopic clover relative. Honestly look up a detailed marine food web, even the simple ones are a nightmare to follow and look more like a modern art piece than anything else.

With all of this now being established then the biggest question I’m sure that anon originally asked and wanted the answer to is energy. Energy transfer between trophic levels is not very efficient. Only about 10% of the net productivity of one level ends up as net productivity at the next level. Most of the energy between trophic levels is lost through heat and other bodily processes. So in a hyper aggressive ecosystem where everything is eating everything, how can there be enough energy and nutrients to go around. Well on Hender’s Island there are three strategies for keeping up with this murder machine of an ecosystem. The first strategy is the outsider strategy. These or organisms who bypass the nonsense of the island altogether by getting their energy from other sources. These would be the nursery bulbs, which feed on adult seabirds and their guano, and in turn nurse juvenile seabirds with a milk-like substance. Seabird guano is one of the richest fertilizers on the planet so even if they didn’t eat the adult birds the nursery bulbs would still be pretty comfortable. The next category is the partial-outsider. These are the Hendropods who cultivate their own food away from the jungle but also travel their occasionally to hunt for food and supplies. They are most removed from the ecosystem and like humans can cycle energy at their own pace. 

Then there are the insiders, the species that actually live inside the biological blender. The book describes these organisms as being biologically immortals, meaning that they will continuously grow, heal, and exist as long as something doesn’t kill them. This is important to note when talking about trophic levels because the fact of the matter is most species are constantly on the move because if they stopped they would starve. This is a shrinking pond of an ecosystem that at one point was probably not nearly as hostile as it is today. Once more and more of the island began to fall into the sea, competition increased, only the fastest, most durable, and adaptable organisms could survive. These organisms are carnivores, they are ultravores meaning they will consume ANY organic matter they find because if they didn’t they would starve and die. The disk ants are the best at this since they found a loophole with their sessile stage but even then they still need nutrients to grow and maintain their bodies which are constantly being eaten away at by their neighbors. The most abundant carbohydrate in this environment is chitin which is not easy to digest. So, all organisms already need to have efficient digestive systems to digest this material and they use that same system for digesting everything else. The two major keystone species of this environment are the hender’s rats and disk ants. The disk ants are food for many other carnivores and they in turn kill inured or weak creatures to cycle their energy. The rats on the other hand act as midlevel predators that are eaten by larger beasts and in turn hunt in packs to bring down bigger prey themselves. Both the disk ant and the rats provide the backbone of this ecosystem though, trees and spigers. The trees provide shelter, produces “fruits”, and help keep many of the smaller organisms populations in check. The spigers are mountains of meat, creature specialized to hunt and kill each other and much like a whalefall, a spiger carcasses is as bounty of food. 

Honestly its only because of these two species that this ecosystem can even work in the first place, energy gathers in the spigers and trees and once they are killed it is quickly redistributed amongst the smaller inhabitants. I could go on about Hender’s Island for hours but the bottom line is this, the organisms here have extremely efficient everything systems and because of that efficient they all need lots of food. Its basically an island of hummingbirds and shrews, hypervores that must all eat each other because if they didn’t they’d starve. This is the effect of the shrinking pond and evolutionarily would be on a fast tract to extinction anyways since at some point the space would dwindle enough for there to not be enough room for large ant forests and spigers to exist, preventing larger organisms from getting enough nutrients to survive. The only thing that would remain would be the nursery cradles, the clover, and microorganisms which would eventually slow down in aggressiveness due to the lack of competition. Honestly energy wise its at a constant deficit but makes up for that fact by recycling nutrients at an astronomical rate, making up for all the energy lost from heat and bodily processes. Nothing lives long enough for it to be a huge issue since anything that does starve is just recycles back into the system again. 

Sorry again for the delay and the stupid long post. I didn’t explain it the best here and will probably make another post outlining in more detail how the ecosystem of Hender’s Island functions. Hope my poor explanation somewhat helps. If you want a better explanation researcher marine ecosystems and sea-life durability. You’d be surprised who aggressive marine systems can be.

[dappercritter]

“King of the Monsters. Wrath of God. God Incarnate. Godzilla knows many titles, and many more names. To me, it will always be the dragon my family has been charged with. It’s been seven decades since Godzilla 01 (‘Gojira’) first appeared and attacked Japan. Four since Godzilla 02 emerged and followed suit, and just over two since it became enraged for unknown reasons, then sealed away by SAINT in Greenland. Throughout all of it, my family has been there to observe, study, and attempt combat them. While its appearance has always marked times of catastrophe, if not for Godzilla, our family name would remain in obscurity. KAMI would have never come to be. While I feel no sense of gratitude for the beasts that terrorized my home, I accept my part in this struggle. When 02 reawakens--and it will if the UN continues to ignore the agency’s warnings about the state of Area G thanks to climate change, never mind the ongoing budget cuts--I will be there to face it in the field to unlock its mysteries. Just as my grand-father, my grandparents, and my parents have before me. That is my responsibility as a Yamane. I will see you again soon, O ‘King of Destruction.’"

- Tomoko Yamane, chief behavioural specialist with KAMI

This literal god-tier design is brought to you by the esteemed @iamthekaijuking! He helped me develop everything from the inner workings to aesthetics to our take on the Big G. I could go on, but I’ll leave that for him to talk about in his reblog. Remember to check out his blog, and give him a commission if you got some cash lying around!

We can’t wait to show you what this King of the Monsters is capable of, where he’ll go, and even what he thinks of the humans who’ll be working alongside him!

(And a monster-sized shout-out to @luna-tiel for helping me with the lore blurb as well!)

[kaijuthespacemaniraptorian]

The Flesh God!

just a simple little fan art for @iamthekaijuking!

hope you like it buddy i had alot of fun drawing it! your Websona is always awesome as hell!

[humansbgone]

Are there any excessive people killing moments or is the way of getting rid of humans just basically an elaborate “shoo go away” scenario? Because if a bunch of people die in this colorful bug story then I’m gonna be really sad.

Sophodra only captures them. Unfortunately, there will be death in this story.

[revretch]

Which is better at supporting weight, exoskeleton or endoskeleton? I know arthropods could generally get bigger if they had a closed circulatory system, but how big is their limit?

(Apologies if this was meant to be a Gregorsa ask--assuming it's not because it was an ask for this account lol)

I'm definitely not an expert on this, but exoskeletons seem like they would probably have a higher limit--construction machinery and architecture can get huge with their rigid supports, but outside of water, it'd be about impossible to keep anything that size from collapsing if it were made of softer tissue. If the animal's insides were suspended correctly in the exoskeleton to keep from collapsing, and they had circulatory systems to ferry nutrients to the rest of the body quickly, it'd be kind of like a full-body ribcage. And, since you'd have more points of muscle attachment, you could also move that bulk around a lot more easily.

(Now, molting at that size would be a disaster. Until the new exoskeleton hardened, there would be absolutely no supporting structure whatsoever. So, let's assume we have some alternative system, more like bone or tree trunk growth. We'll also assume the exoskeleton is made of something other than chitin, which doesn't scale well iirc.)

Problem is, it gets resource-intensive to maintain any kind of skeleton past a certain size, especially since a skeleton needs to be proportionately thicker to support all that weight. An endoskeleton has a lot less mass than an exoskeleton (a supporting rod in the center vs. a whole containing shell), so, fewer resources required.

An endoskeleton is also harder to crush, since the densest part is already at the center. Think about stepping on something with a hard crust and a putty interior, vs. a hard core surrounded by putty. As it gets bigger and has to become stronger just to move itself around, the animal starts to risk breaking itself apart...to say nothing of attackers. Land arthropods stopped getting huge when rodents started evolving to burrow into them. Additionally, you're looking at the problem of resources again to repair whatever damage was done. Construction machinery and architecture don't have to worry about that because they're not that active, not a lot of things want to eat them, and they have many small animals to fetch resources and repair them as needed.

So, in the end, the biggest problem isn't physics--it's competition.

[monster-huntologist]

Do you think that nergigante spikes and regrowth plates might be a type of controlled cancer much like deer antlers? That would partially explain the fast growth rate, which is probably accelerated beyond what is normal through bioenergy.

It likely is some form of modified mass cell production, with Ruiner’s in particular undergoing metallisation on contact with air. Their remarkably strange reproduction method also seems to imply that their spikes are much more complicated than simple bone or keratin