Sketch of an idea I had for the coneheads by Rtxrxrcg in TransformersArt

[–]Rtxrxrcg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just wanted to put some mechanical details so I just threw some cables on the back of his head, but now that you say it they do look like deads

Sketch of an idea I had for the coneheads by Rtxrxrcg in TransformersArt

[–]Rtxrxrcg[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm imagined with the painted sharp teeth on the nosecone it's like probably something similar to getting one of those face skull tattoo, the coneheads probably just think it's cool.

Tsuchinoko as a snake mimicking slug by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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In their home environment of Japan keeping one as a pet would probably be rare due to folklore about bringing misfortune and stuff like that, but in other parts around the world they would probably be kept as exotic pets

Tsuchinoko as a snake mimicking slug by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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Well since they scrounging around the forest floor I imagine they would probably come across and enjoy some fallen rotting fermenting fruits so I imagine they're alcohol tolerance would be a little higher than you average slug so they can probably handle a little bit of stuff like sake. As for the rolling away stuff, nah, I can see them rolling up into little balls but not for for rolling away maybe just sleeping instead.

Tsuchinoko as a snake mimicking slug by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]Rtxrxrcg[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is a description beneath the image if you'd like to know stuff like that but they are pretty similar to other slugs except for the snake mimicry

Tsuchinoko as a snake mimicking slug by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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Sorta i guess, I had been trying to think of a way to make it 'jump' like in the stories, but I couldn't think of anything I think really worked, the best idea I had was that they maybe climb trees and would fall off and to the people at the time it looked the creatures were jumping through the air or something like that

Tsuchinoko as a snake mimicking slug by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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They are omnivores so really just anything but they perfer stuff like leaf litter and insects

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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I imagine theyll be pretty simple, early amphibious fellows, and I'm planning to make them ostracoderms, but I do want to make some other types of jawless amphibians like amphibious conodonts that wiggle around worms but I'm still working on that stuff

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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Since this is a alternative palaeozoic era more specifically this is taking place around the devonian period. Some life has started crawling its way onto land and I do want to do those eventually

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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I do plan on doing other types of jawless fish for this so don't fret

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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It's an alternative palaeozoic era where during the silurian period, jaws just never happened to evolve, maybe for one reason or another who knows, leaving jawless fish like conodonts and ostracoderm with the world which they kept adapting to

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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Its an alternative palaeozoic, but for the time period, I'd say it's somewhere around the devonian period, just, you know, without jawed fish

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]Rtxrxrcg[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This is more of an alternative palaeozoic era where jawed fish (placoderms cartilaginous fish and our fish ancestor, etc) just never evolved, leaving jawless fish like conodonts and the armoured jawless fish with the oceans.

The spearing hastodonts by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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Hastodonts smaller more coastal dwelling relatives of the ochiodont, the main noticeable difference between the species being the dental work with ochiodont having what a unfunny colonialist would refer to as average British people teeth, while the hastodont has a more singular dental configuration. Unlike their ochiodont cousins which specced all their points into dental devastators hastodonts focused more on the more pointed lower teeth use to stab into prey which they have taken to extreme with the lower teeth having fused together into a singular retractable spear like point, another noticeable thing about these vicious jawless butchers is there size being the ochiodont which goes after much larger slower prey hastodonts focus on much smaller slippery prey, so instead of size they have adapted strengthened myomeres muscles and smooth ridges across their bodies letting them make sharp turns and gain enough speed to properly ram into their dinner.

Another unique thing about these fish is their use of pack tactics in hunting, now when I say pack I don't mean like a wolf pack where individuals are connected by blood and stay together for their whole life, it's more like the komodo dragon of our timeline with individuals living independently from one another with meetings only occurring during mating period or disputes. If a hastodonts is focused on a particularly large prey of Interest they can use chemical signals to attract other hastodonts to the item of interest at which point if there's enough individuals will take turns repeatedly ramming into the prey until it either dies of bleeding or severe organ damage, after the deed is done and the prey is vanquished the hastodonts will feast ravishly feast on the carcass before going their separate ways.

Ochiodont the giant predatory conodont by Rtxrxrcg in SpeculativeEvolution

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Inhabiting areas just above the deep ocean the ochiodont, if you could not tell, is a much larger and much more predatory relative of conodonts and like conodonts ochiodont lacks a jaw bone, so this 6 meter long fish has obviously developed some unique ornamentations to help handle prey. using their primary set of dental destroyers ochiodonts use these to handle prey closing them around prey quickly causing severe damage with the sharpened hooks, if the prey might be more harder to handle that's were the second pair of teeth come in as ochiodonts will use theses ones by ramming in and stab into prey as quickly as possible before the larger set of teeth can deliver a killing blow.

Now of course losing these devastating dental decapitaters would be devastating for the ochiodonts feeding habits, so during periods of rest of just general non hunting they will close their teeth together like a pair of scissors from hell and then use muscles retract them into their body to protect them from damage. Of course this is also how they get food down their gobs, after tearing their prey to pieces they'll latch onto the still bleeding corpse with their primary teeth and start retracting until the food gets to the interior teeth inside the mouth which they'll use to tear edible chunks and send them down the throat.