SmorgasVoid 🐢🦕🦖🐉

Just some dude that likes prehistoric fauna and speculative biology Sometimes draws Other links: https://x.com/Supastarwarrior https://www.reddit.com/user/SmorgasVoid (less frequent here)

[thenewnio]

[renal03421]

Leqdera

(Leqda Derandual-beaked multi-limbed, multi-armed)

[smorgasvoid]

Paraceratherium transouralicum/bugtiense

Paraceratherium transouralicum is a large species of rhinoceros that existed during the Oligocene. It was one of the largest mammals that ever existed.

P. transouralicum might represent a synonym of P. bugtiense.

Reconstruction based on Alphynix's Paraceratherium

[smorgasvoid]

From now on, I will exclusively put non-spec evo content on my Tumblr (spec Evo content will still appear on Reddit)

What content? Mostly paleoart and reposts

[smorgasvoid]

Map for Project Dato V2

Previous continents were mentioned on the older version of this map (I still hate how Earth-like it is but it is slightly more satisfactory than the original).

Notable changes:

The Mura continents are now known as "Moira"

Paleo Island was replaced with "Metheus Frontier".

Shlong of the West is replaced with "Priapus of the West".

Zubian Isles are smaller and lower

Bone Island became "Boneland"

Yomi and Meido swapped names

Next to the Caikarip Isles is a larger island known as Neoia

Nanpou and Touhou are split into North and South.

The Midlands

New landmasses are:

Yatelandisi - mostly tropical, fertile with an abundance of resources and exotic flora and fauna.

Mu - temperate with many forests.

Limoliya - a mostly tropical landmass

[fossillad123]

[ Synthos ]

" Synthos usually plays a supporting role, as Link helps it augment allied attacks. When on its own, however, its Attack gains a massive bonus. "

[nightmaresyrup]

The Vietnamese Black-breasted Leaf turtle!

.....MY GOD LOOK AT THEIR EYES! And they're real fast!

[snototter]

A lichen huntsman spider (Heteropoda boiei) camouflages against a tree in Selangor, Malaysia

by Roy Kittrell

[herpsandbirds]

Glossy Daggerwing (Marpesia furcula), family Nymphalidae, Panama

photograph by Sarab Seth

[night-terrors-official]

A little bit of worldbuilding for TGU - sunfruit jelly

Sunfruit jelly is a Dœnian snack food commonly imported to the rest of the galaxy made from the sunfruit plant. This plant somewhat resembles a mix between a palm tree and a very large pineapple, but in a lot of ways is more similar to a cactus. Due to the intense heat of Dœn’s parent star (known to Eviors as Aa, known to humans as 90 Leonis), a large, blue, B-type main sequence star, Dœn itself is a hot, dry desert planet. To absorb the most light from Dœn’s sun, the sunfruit plant grows a tall stalk and large leaves with phycocyanin (blue) pigment, and stores all its sugars and water at its base. When this massive, spiny bulb is cut open, small seeds and thick, gooey, orange flesh can be found. The flesh of the fruit is extracted, mashed, and chilled to make sunfruit jelly.

The Mazoa’s Oasis company is just one of many distributors of this delicacy, given its name because the Evior name “Mazoa” means “beautiful oasis” or “beautiful water”. I specifically wanted this to be the company’s name since Azadri’s mother was also named Mazoa, and I’d kind of like to think that she eats this snack to remember her and her brother.

Most of the time, sunfruit jelly is packaged with small spoons made from the blue wood of the tree part of a sunfruit plant, carved so that it’s easy to hold between an Evior’s two middle fingers.

[keroberos99]

chibipedes 🐛💖🐛

[crevicedwelling]

Fabulous…

[renal03421]

Deserted Leqdera bird

[renal03421]

Big flying bugs

[snototter]

An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) guards her den

by Neil Gillies

[daerwen]

These will be nicknamed "Leaf wings" until I go through proper naming schemes with them. They're a medium-sized fishoid from the Schkepian oceans.

I haven't written much for them yet, but the idea is that these creatures have specific species of algae that they grow through vein-like structures in their larger fins, as well as other parts of their body. This algae will photosynthesize and feed the host, admittedly for not much in return, but the fishoid does serve as a structure for the plant.

There's also a smaller species related to these that I'll be drawing sometime, found in coral reefs.

[tickfleato]

commission for @sleepvines!

[tribbetherium]

Armadiles, surface molrocks in the "stem-rattiles" branch of the cladistic tree, were among the first of the molrock family to attain large predatory niches in the Glaciocene. Dominating as the top predators of Fissor, the armadiles preyed on walkabies, rhinocheirids and rattiles alike, spreading onto the Gestaltian mainland when Fissor at last collided with the landmass.

But while the armadiles were initially successful, they would ultimately be a short-lived early experiment in the molrock evolutionary path. They had, unfortunately, spread out during the Glaciocene: a time of cold periods and unpredictable weather, which proved to be disastrous to the armadiles when their ectothermic metabolisms made them barely functional on cold days. Their smaller cousins, the rattiles, were able to endure by becoming dormant and subsisting on small insects and invertebrates, but the Glaciocene and its clime was no time and place for a large, cold-blooded terrestrial carnivore to thrive.

The last surviving species would be the armored brushscute (Pilosquamomys minimus), a species native to northern Gestaltia in the Late Glaciocene, 115 million years PE. A relatively small species weighing two kilograms, it ended up outliving the other armadiles due to its size, meaning it needed less food to survive and could subsist on smaller prey like furbils and duskmice as well as a variety of invertebrates. Brushscutes would enjoy a fair amount of success, inhabiting habitats such as coastal shores, grasslands and temperate forests, and hibernated through the cold winters, taking advantage of brief summers to replenish their stores of food as well as breed. With their very slow metabolisms, their gestation periods were equally long, roughly almost a year: at the end of a summer the females would mate, go dormant, and pass their entire duration of pregnancy during a state of hibernation, birthing their young when they awaken next year to a dozen or so already-independent young that nursed only very briefly before leaving for good: an earlier remnant of a trend that led to rattiles eventually fully abandoning lactation only to re-evolve numerous branches of male-centered parental care now that this constraint was no longer a problem.

Unfortunately, the last of the armadiles would meet their end at the final cold snap of the Late Glaciocene, bringing about harsh winters even they in their hibernation would not survive. The smaller rattiles, better able to wait out the cold with fewer needs, would make it through the brief period of extreme temperatures and begin to re-diversify in the Temperocene, with some, such as the garitors and the varats, eventually coming to fill the empty niches of large predators that the armadiles had left vacant.

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