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I believe there was a thread for this at one point but it's gone now. WAYNE BARLOWE Wayne Barlowe is a sci-fi/fantasy artist known for his "Barlowe's Guides" (in which he illustrates various creatures from sci-fi and fantasy literature) and his awesome artbook Expedition, which details the life on an alien world from a scientist's perspective.    SNAIAD Snaiad is a fictional world invented by a "speculative biology" enthusiast, Nemo Ramjet. Unfortunately the project and its website seem to have been abandoned for years and years at this point, but all the images he made for it are up on his deviant art still.   DEADLY PENGUINS I found this googling speculative evolution and  PREHISTORIC MAMMALS The mammals of olden days were way cooler and weirder than dinosaurs ever were.  
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Yeaaaah these threads are always so fun. I like Keith Thompson's poo poo.   
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Here's some more speculative evolution, this time from Dougal Dixon's After Man: The common Rabbuck!  the... uh  stricks & wakkas  and from Nemo Ramjet's Alltomorrows, speculating on human evolution:   
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May 29, 2014 05:08
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acephalousuniverse posted:Here's some more speculative evolution, this time from Dougal Dixon's After Man: After Man drove me sort of nuts, the way it arbitrarily selected what was and wasn't going to die out or evolve to fill a new niche. Plants? All the same. Insects? All the same. Deer? All dead because I like rabbits.
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May 29, 2014 08:39
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I thought the "future predators" from the TV show Primeval were pretty cool.  They were supposedly evolved from bats and had really good hearing and used echolocation. Also they apparently wiped out humanity in the far future somehow.
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May 29, 2014 13:15
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Every culture's got vampires, but Australian indigenous tradition has the distinction of having the dumbest/cutest, the Yara-ma-yha-who. Wikipedia posted:This creature resembles a little red man with a very big head and large mouth with no teeth. On the ends of its hands and feet are suckers. It lives in fig trees and does not hunt for food, but waits until an unsuspecting traveler rests under the tree. It then drops onto the victim and drains their blood using the suckers on its hands and feet, making them weak. It then consumes the person, drinks some water, and then takes a nap. When the Yara-ma-yha-who awakens, it regurgitates the victim, leaving it shorter than before. The victim's skin also has a reddish tint to it that it didn't have before. It repeats this process several times. At length, the victim is transformed into a Yara-ma-yha-who itself. According to legend, the Yara-ma-yha-who will only prey upon a living person, so (hypothetically speaking) you could survive an encounter with this monster by "playing-dead" until sunset; the creature only hunts during the day.
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May 29, 2014 16:52
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 Always a classic. I believe it comes from that same "After Man" book
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TheDon01 posted:
I think that was from Man After Man. Those are both far-future human descendant species. I found this book absolutely fascinating as a kid.
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ArcMage posted:After Man drove me sort of nuts, the way it arbitrarily selected what was and wasn't going to die out or evolve to fill a new niche. Oh yeah I definitely don't think it's in any way accurate or realistic, just cool. Here are some Fearsome Critters http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearsome_Creatures_of_the_Lumberwoods,_With_a_Few_Desert_and_Mountain_Beasts  
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May 29, 2014 21:49
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Dragons in ancient Korea were hosed up man.  
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Redcap, also known as a powrie or dunter, is a type of malevolent murderous dwarf, goblin, elf or fairy found in British Folklore. They are said to inhabit ruined castles found along the border between England and Scotland. Redcaps are said to murder travellers who stray into their homes and dye their hats with their victims' blood (from which they get their name). Redcaps must kill regularly, for if the blood staining their hats dries out, they die. Redcaps are very fast in spite of the heavy iron pikes they wield and the iron-shod boots they wear. They are depicted as sturdy old men with red eyes, taloned hands, and large teeth, wearing a red cap and bearing a pikestaff in the left hand.   
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Behold the ESQUILAX!
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Hey.
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acephalousuniverse posted:Here's some more speculative evolution, this time from Dougal Dixon's After Man: I always find it amusing just how people dont "get" evolution. There is going to be little reason for our bodies to change drastically now that we modify our environment to suit us and have removed natural selection from the equation for the most part.
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acephalousuniverse posted:and from Nemo Ramjet's Alltomorrows, speculating on human evolution: Yes, that's how evolution and biology works.
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May 31, 2014 11:15
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Xenomorphs are awesome. RIP Giger.  
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May 31, 2014 18:48
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My namesake, the mighty drop bear. An Australian, ambush-hunting carnivorous marsupial that drops on it's prey from trees. Then again, from what I've heard of Australia that wouldn't even be the worst wildlife in there.
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May 31, 2014 18:54
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I summon thee, oh great prince of hell, commander of 26 high legions! STOLAS THE NIGHTRAVEN! COME! 
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Nutsngum posted:I always find it amusing just how people dont "get" evolution. There is going to be little reason for our bodies to change drastically now that we modify our environment to suit us and have removed natural selection from the equation for the most part. Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:Yes, that's how evolution and biology works. It's a science fiction book in which aliens genetically modify humans a billion years in the future and then leave them on different Terra formed planets. Soooo these seem like boring nerd posts and not cool monster posts, shut up maybe The HYDRAX and the HELION 
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acephalousuniverse posted:The HYDRAX and the HELION Not even close to the weirdest things in that particular MCA. The Speculative Dinosaur Project was a really cool collaborative effort to do the "what if the dinosaurs never died out?" thing better than Dixon. Defunct now but the creators want to bring it back, so here's hoping it works out. http://speculativebiology.wikia.com/wiki/The_Speculative_Dinosaur_Project
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Someone already posted an Ars Goetia demon, but I've always been a big fan of the weird way Bruegel the Elder made his demons and damned souls look.  
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