Kangasauras

22 | Aussie Sometimes known as Kangakatt https://sites.google.com/view/kangakatt/home

[kangasauras]

Just remembered how to draw by way of (checks notes) redrawing an old 2018 pic of a character from a fandom I haven’t been interested in for 7 years. Let’s hope this isn’t a fluke?? Maybe I will actually draw another thing a couple months from now instead of another four years from now. lol.

[kangasauras]

More old art! A 2021 montage of neornithiscians. From left to right (iirc): Nasutoceratops, Pachyrhinosaurus, Dryosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Iguanodon, Parasaurolophus, Pachycephalosaurus, human for scale

[kangasauras]

Since I haven’t been able to draw in ages I figured I might as well post some of my old art that I drew before I got tumblr. Who knows, it’s a new year and maybe I’ll get some new motivation? This one is from 2021, it’s a montage of coelurosaurs. From left to right (iirc): Utahraptor, Tyrannosaurus rex, Gigantoraptor, some kind of troodontid, Deinocheirus, Compsognathus, human for scale, Gallimimus, Therizinosaurus, elephant bird.

[toskarin]

I am absolutely a The Beast of Gévaudan Was An Escaped Hyena truther. not all of that was the same beast, but a hyena was definitely involved

[toskarin]

just weighing in on the popular issues

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Wasn't the beast bullet proof

[toskarin]

every beast is bullet proof when you're scared

[a-book-of-creatures]

Everything is bullet proof if the bullets never actually hit

[kangasauras]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.

Both dream me and irl me were very confused.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

it might have been a dream, but feathered dinosaurs being linked to an ideology isn't that uncommon. Them being viewed as "leftist", "woke" or "gay" has occured several times.

I collect these examples.

[kangasauras]

Here is another example I found on the most unexpectedly toxic place on the internet, Instagram comment sections! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the people infamous for denying science also deny palaeo science, but oh well 🙃

[drawingsphopho]

Fanart of an Azi Lana individual.

Crying and sobbing thinking about @kangasauras’s Azi Lana. I want to meet one in real life. :) I also need to draw some of their variants as well 👀

[areallycreativeusername]

[kangasauras]

We finally found the right plant for this other reddit user’s window

[kangasauras]

The problem with suddenly going from drawing for several hours a day (me before) to not drawing for months at a time (me with depression) is that your wrist loses its strength scarily quickly. So recently I’ve been trying to doodle for about half an hour a day just to exercise. If anyone has tips for building hand/wrist strength back up I would appreciate them!

[kangasauras]

An alien. Based on wrasse and hyenas. They are polar predators, using the giant tooth-premaxilla-thing to pierce the skin of their giant, blubbery prey.

[kangasauras]

Hello everyone! I’m sorry for my impromptu disappearance. I’ve been very ill and I’ve only begun to recover. But, I felt well enough to draw this little dimorphodon. I can’t promise anything from here on out, but I really hope I’ll continue to be able to create like I have in the past. It feels very good to draw again :)

[kangasauras]

Today’s sketches: some assorted birds.

Penguins are so weird! They’re birds- with a vertical spine?? Also, they’ve been around for about 60 million years. What were they doing in the tens of millions of years before Antarctica was covered in ice?

[kangasauras]

Some more gazelles :)

[kangasauras]

Some gazelles :)

[kangasauras]

Concept sketches for the ULE! Sorry for the long post.

Most nations in the ULE prefer to create habitats or terraform planets specifically to their biological needs. This is useful, because it means that their citizens can travel to any part of the nation- habitat, planet, or moon- without suffering severe medical effects. However, this takes lots of time and resources, and as many planets can’t accommodate certain organisms even with terraforming, it ultimately limits the available space. So, the Eina jarn have taken a different approach.

The Eina jarn are a majority-Azi lana nation with a range of different territories and ways of life. Their ownership of one of only three dyson spheres in the area makes them a powerful faction. Notably, when they colonise new areas, they will genetically modify their own citizens to cope with the new environment, instead of the other way around. They have created three new varieties of Azi lana in total, all of which cannot sire children with each other or with the unmodified Xenosapiens alana, and so are usually considered entirely separate species.

X. hanwena (casually glewens) is a species of Azi lana modified to live on the moon Hanwen. Although the moon has been terraformed to hold oxygen in its atmosphere, it is half the size of Earth’s moon, and so glewens have been created for life under extremely low gravity.

To cope with this, their vascular systems, muscles, and skeletons have all been fundamentally altered, to the point where their organs would be crushed if they were to travel to the Azi lana homeplanet, Gi.

To take full advantage of the low gravity, they have also been given large membranes with which they can glide short distances. The membranes’ skin and muscle is supported by long, thin extensions of their bifurcated neural spines.

X. Larmwaa (casually engwells) is a species created to live on the super-earth Larmwa. This high-gravity planet has no oxygen in its atmosphere, and so engwells usually live in underground habitats.

To live under gravity that would easily crush others, these people have strong, light bones, sturdy muscles, and a fast, powerful heart. They also have an extra pair of legs, and their arms have been modified to easily bear weight, meaning they have a maximum of eight limbs to support themselves with.

Like humans, they can live in lower-gravity environments, but doing so for extended periods of time leads to physical changes like muscle atrophy and eventually severe medical effects.

X. Einaa (casually arjenjaals) have been modified to live inside the dyson sphere orbiting their star, Eina yerda. They are born and raised to carry out important duties, like maintenance of the dyson sphere, as well as worship and appeasement of the Eina jarn’s god- the star itself.

Arjenjaals live and work in zero-gravity. Their vascular and musculoskeletal systems, as well as their development period, have been highly modified- again, their organs would be crushed by higher gravity environments. They navigate the long, thin rooms of their home by pulling and pushing on walls and handles with their spindly limbs.

Though thick habitat walls prevent much solar radiation from reaching the arjenjaals, they are still regularly bathed in amounts that would kill a lesser organism. To cope, their DNA is hardy, easily repaired, and stored in double the amount of chromosomes. Even still, arjenjaals live tragically short lives.

[kangasauras]

A break from my normal spec bio stuff with an experimental drawing. This is a second pass on an aesthetic I developed a couple of years ago, which was in turn inspired by graphical representations of gravity.

Big green dude.

[kangasauras]

I decided to post the speculative evolution-themed sixfanarts I drew back in October. I have a lot of old art I haven’t posted here yet so I hope you guys will let me indulge myself :D

[kangasauras]

A human/Azi lana hybrid.

Genetic modification in the ULE is… complicated. It’s way easier to simulate projected changes in a plant or a dog, for instance, than in the human brain. And if, despite the computer simulation, you get it wrong, well… if it’s a plant or a dog, you can just try again.

When it comes to sapient species- humans, Azi lana, and such- it’s much easier to do something like replacing body hair with feathers, or adding a tail, or lengthening arms, than to completely overhaul bodyplan and anatomy. So while the former is common in some places, the latter almost can’t be done.

But while mere sapients cannot grasp the complexity of their own bodies and minds, they are not the only intelligent beings in the universe. Superintelligents are vast minds with the power to understand and grasp every aspect of the sapient brain. Though many are unconcerned with the happenings of mortals, a few have helped sapients along their way.

One superintelligence, Anwarth, has gone above and beyond for local sapient nations. Their portfolio includes blueprints for sapient robots, a brain implant that acts as a universal translator, and perhaps their crowning achievement: an algorithm that can create a functional person from DNA samples of entirely separate sapient species.

The GECCAI algorithm, as easy to use and consistently successful as it is, is the relied-upon method for creating hybrid offspring between two alien parents. Though all hybrids are created to do the basics- eat, move, communicate, etc- the different biologies of their alien parents means their own anatomy can be quite exotic. Both this and the inherent sterility of hybrids has sociological implications for their way of life.

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