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19:00 19-10-2011Anthony
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its possible, Mexanik...it sounds almost like a "glide and dive" or "glide then crash" method. sounds interesting.
(check out videos of manta rays and flying fish - great white sharks don't really go far once they're in the air)
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21:39 18-10-2011Mexanik
- Me lost in those blogs :'] Anyway, is it possible to evolve seasoar-like beast from swimming ancestors as I described?
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21:29 18-10-2011SN
- Mexanik: the seasoar is definitely not evolved from a swimming creature. Oh well, yes it did, but in the way that all dry land- animals are. It hasn't got swimming forms in its more recent evolutionary history. And it has legs as well, tucked carefully underneath the body. If you search the blog for the 'bulchouk', you will find a similar flying form.
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10:41 18-10-2011Mexanik
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SN:
Thanks :] I have more pictures of "ediacaran" organisms for one of my projects, but they are more symmetric. But if these creatures are not too impossible to be I can draw more of them.
Gabriel:
I remember D. Dixon's vortex, baleen-like penguin. As seasoar has fin-looking wings and no visible legs, is it possible that its ancestors were swimming creatures like dolphins? Flight could evolve from hunting style: ancestor jumped out of water (in dolphin style) to fall from the skies to unsuspecting prey. Then pre-seasoars started "learn to fly" to keep prey unaware as long as possible.
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09:00 18-10-2011Jan
- It would be interesting to know the evolutionary reason for stalked eyes. I think that for crustaceans, it is their lack of neck...
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07:36 18-10-2011SN
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Edgar:
Your questions concern topics that have indeed not been worked over in the site or the blog, except for the eye design, which has been given some attention. Some of the other questions, such as on taxonomy, will be answered in part in the book that all this will eventually become. The Encyclopedia does not actually exist at present, but you are not the first to think it did...
As for your name: that makes it an example of 'Neerlandification' of a surname.
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23:10 17-10-2011Edgar Van Der Ghast
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Hi all,
SN: Your hexapod carnivores are very interesting lifeforms, i'd like to know some more about them, i.e. some about their taxonomy, about their stalked eyes, they remember me those of crabs or even those of slugs, so, i'd like to know if they are simmilar in some way or more mammalian-like in internal structure? Also, i'd like to know how to get a copy of the Furaha encyclopaedia. btw, Van Der Ghast is the non-hispanicized form of my actual surname, Vanegas, but i like it more
Evan: thanks
i'm looking into your website which is very interesting too I liked the descriptions in the taxonomy of your creatures
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22:19 17-10-2011Gabriel
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Just wondering how efficient wave-cutters are in catching plankton. Scooping plankton with the beak/mouth by "plowing" the water surface does not cope easily with waves. The flyer would spend too much time with the beak outside the water, not filtering any plankton. It would be better if the animal could do one of the following:
1- Float on the surface and filter plankton just like flamingoes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo#Feeding
2- Dive and filter while swimming (even close to the surface) like baleen whales do
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleen
If the animal is too clumsy to maneuver by diving into the water and re-emerging when job is done, would it be better if the wavecutter had fine hairs on its legs, that would "comb" the water and trap some plankton to be collected on the fly? That would require some flexibility with the neck and legs to pass-on the food to the mouth. However, this setting is more stable: The legs create drag at the rear part of the body, and "tipping over" is not a concern.
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21:19 17-10-2011SN
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Hi all,
I'm still swamped by work, so have little time to spend here.
Mexanik: I like your sketches, silly as you may think them to be; they're silly in the nice side of silliness. Have you done more? If so, I think we would like to see.
Edgar: Thank you and welcome! With a surname like that, you must have Dutch ancestry.
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19:43 17-10-2011Evan Black
- Bienvenido, Edgar.
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10:25 17-10-2011Edgar Van Der Ghast
- Hello, greetings from Guatemala, your work is quite impressive, I liked a lot your world-making and the creatures you envisioned there.
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19:00 14-10-2011William Stephens
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Joe
Who's creature pages? I'm aware that that Evan has a site, but who else?
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12:41 14-10-2011SN
- Joe: I drew the silhouettes, but you probably understood that, so perhaps I did not understand your question?
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10:53 14-10-2011Mexanik
- What about a harpoon?
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07:18 14-10-2011Joe
- On your creature pages, how did you get the different person silhouettes for size comparison?