Lizardsaurus

Misc art blog, mostly paleoart and spec bio. 3D/2D, gamedev, video. Creator of Total Convergence..? (Spec bio / worldbuilding project)

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Hey cuties I’m on tumblr now :33

Posting this jakapil kaniukura from 2022 to start off this blog

[sparrowlucero]

A couple more driftwolves (available on my kofi as adoptables!)

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Skrall the Northern General of the Black Veins Empire

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Bumag the Western General of the Black Veins Empire

[lizardsaurus-art]

Squiggly lines and shaky shadows

[onenicebugperday]

Angled sunbeam butterfly larva, Curetis acuta, Lycaenidae

Found throughout South and Southeast Asia

Gif for those who don’t want to play the video:

via Flickr: The caterpillars are remarkable enough for the twin periscopes on their hind ends which contain tentacle organs. When threatened, the caterpillar telescopes these structures outwards of their sheath in the form of a bouquet of hair-like tentacles which whirl around. This is presumably a defensive mechanism designed to alarm a potential predator, but it is hypothesized that they may also have a volatile secretion dissipation function as well.

Adult:

Photos by milind_bhakare

[mushruumtea]

Enjoy some cute Rocky Animation snippets :)

[yellosnacc]

Is there something that describes why uniima are shaped like that, I want to know why Neal is 70% head or what environment conditions would make a creature like that

-various sky uniima individuals engaging in object manipulation

Uniima are visually a little top-heavy. And that is because the head is one giant hand (and it is very distantly derived from a limb).

Because they are arboreal, their arms and legs aren't always available. The trees most favored by them also aren't branched like those favored by apes, like us - imagine an alien redwood. Because of this, their ancestors have had part of their tongue and their upper sensory organs turn into manipulators along with the beak, and their middle eyes move deeper into the mouth area. This way, they got to solve more complex tasks and get into more difficult food items. Any branches can also be grabbed by the big jaws to move the body elsewhere, and a practiced individual can use their head and body motion to launch themselves a great distance onto a different surface, ideally catching onto something with their beak for support.

The head, while large, isn't too massive. The vocal organs take up most of the skull space, meaning majority is filled with air while the rest hosts complex nerves, eyes, muscles, and mostly hollow bones (they are stronger in the jaws). The true brain is in the chest. So these skulls aren't as heavy as they seem.

And about Neal- He's the worst example for the species because he barely has any basic knowledge of the species. Being raised by slomen and being very insecure about his appearance and behavior, you will never see him actually use his head to do anything, and to him, it only gets in the way and frustrates him. It is probably his biggest insecurity. He did use his jaws as a baby, but as a witch, he did get some motor issues, making him very shaky while holding anything in the beak and putting pressure on it. He now hides this well, but also has comparatively extremely weak jaws.

His actual way of manipulating the world is with his hands, like slomen. This is not unique to him, uniima can use their limbs for things, but discriminate less between front and back limbs. They do this more for support than the default though, none of their hands have opposable fingers, and their large claws get in the way (and heavily arboreal communities don't want to risk losing them).

Neal doesn't have functioning claws. They were gutted at a very young age. For the same reason, he's also missing some fingers. His tool use causes him pain. But it would be really impressive to a uniima observer!

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Where have I been? Making a game!

That's right, while I was gone, I was basically just working on a game related to my world of @total-convergence. The first playable version is technically out, but I have to fix some bugs relating to display on different screen sizes... Stay tuned for more updates!

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Some behind the scenes for the talita plinko

Character belongs to @jayrockin

[aeriona]

Breaking out of my longass streak of inactivity to bring you: Centaur in minecraft. Minecraft centaur alien player model. that I made.

his hitbox is the same size as a horse so he can't fit through doors lol

Centaurs belong to @jayrockin!

waugh

[yellosnacc]

New sky unii ref

Two adult sky uniima. One is walking forward while the other stands with limbs spread to the side, showing one palm. Between them is a single plump larva.

You can see more variation between groups with the extra cere (nostril) skin creating fleshy caruncles.

Another thing to point out would be two mouth fingers on the top jaw and a single one on the bottom. These have bones, though the little "frills" on them are muscle.

Here is an approximate scale compared to a human. Important to remember- while slomen are humanoid, they are smaller than humans.

Species info:

Sky uniima are primarily an arboreal species that mainly lives on a single large forested land with many surrounding islands. While their range is much smaller than that of land uniima (a distantly related species of sophont), their specialisation allows them to occupy the more extreme parts of their biosphere and spread all over there.

Sky unii generally build smaller societies with unique languages/dialects and cultures, even when these settlements aren't too far apart. Still, in modern times, cooperation is highly encouraged in the more politically active areas. This isn't an issue for most, as uniima have an extraordinary sense for picking up languages. Sky uniima learn new tongues especially well, even in older age, and many more-traveled ones can speak over 10 separate languages.

Their way of speaking is through the crest, creating multiple 'simpler' sounds at once. Unfortunately, they can't mimic other sophont ways of speech very well like this. Writing is the best next thing.

Sky uniima also show emotion using sound. This tune comes from the base of the crest and can be heard over speech. To our ears, it might appear like a humming/rattling sound in a chamber, but we would have a harder time separating it from other noises. The secondary way of emoting is the stretching and inflating of the facial markings.

Yes, the censored region is their unsafe for work area.

[almostrealzine]

Something ✨🌿speculative 🌿✨ is coming this summer …

stay tuned for an announcement outta this world 👽

[jayrockin]

RttS isn't the only thing I've been working on the past couple years 👀

Keep an eye out for more Almost Real: A Speculative Biology magazine!

[kitsiinabox]

The Baleens have a few varieties of houses, but in the areas where good sand is plentiful, along with the other supplies needed, you can't beat a good solid glass dome.

Originally, the glass domes started much smaller as cremation/burial mounds for members. But over time, they built up to become homes for the living.

[jayrockin]

Odd question sorry it came to me while I was in a dream how would a centaur smoke a cigar?

Through the trunk. Also this isn't a hypothetical, smoking psychoactive fungus is pretty common on some regions of the homeplanet and it's bad for their lungs for the exact reasons it's bad for human lungs

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sweetie pie trunk smile moments: a compilation

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Star Trek grandma

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Betcha Grandma was writing original k/s slashfic decades before you kiddies were born.

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Yes @ceruleanteacup , Grandma was

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i hope everyone knows that OP wasn’t just saying this generally - she quite literally was the star trek grandma. she passed in 2018, rip to an icon