Yet more orphaned concepts - Happy Spectember!
Hello again. Another blog post, another batch of orphaned concepts from the vault. - This one was supposed to be a descendant of the Kiwi, perhaps in a timeline where conservation managed to prevent its extinction. This particular form is a bit bigger and bulkier, and feeds upon crustaceans and other invertebrates on the shores of beaches and estuaries. This is some sort of Palaeozoic shark, bearing denticles and long, semi-retractable jaws. This was a concept that Raymond Tobin and I came up with for the Speculative Dinosaur Project before it died off. A kind of false-ground-sloth with a prehensile, trunk-like lower lip. This is a re-draw of a series of nondescript, blind sand-burrowing creatures from more than a decade ago. I think this one could be a mammalian burrower from a very far future, many hundreds of millions of years after humans. A turkey-sized palaeognath bird that is a predator, mainly dispatching prey with its large clawed, plume-less wings. A fast-swimming, endothermi
