Tim Morris' Art and Project Blog

Hello. This time I am returning to Our Potential Yesterdays with some more suggestions I got, but all of these are anything other than Dinosaurs. - Cambrian. An abyssal raptorial relative of Anomalocaris, which produces light to attract prey. Anomalocarididae. Devonian. A tiny parasitic Placoderm that lodges in the gill cavities of larger fish, to suck blood. Petalicthyida. Devonian. A parrotfish-like Placoderm that feeds on encrusting organisms. Arthrodira. Late Permian. A relative of Meganeura that feeds by hunting insects on and around giant Therapsids. Meganisoptera. Late Permian. A small, nocturnal Dicynodont with large eyes.  Pylaecephalidae. Late Permian. A polar conodont that scrapes the algae off the underside of sea ice using its array of rasping teeth. Conodonta. Early Triassic. A terrestrial common ancestor of all Sauropterygians. Stem-Sauropterygia. Late Triassic. A Hybodont shark with a Heterodont dentition. Hybodontiformes. Late Triassic. A Shastasaurid Icthyosa...

Hello again. Sometimes I have ideas for creatures that are part of a project that doesn't go ahead, that I still want to keep, or simply separate isolated concepts without a project. I call these orphaned concepts. Here are a few ones from recent times and back a bit further. The Digbird, a duck-sized, flightless insular Koobaburra-like bird that digs for food using its large shovel-like beak. This was inspired by the real-world Shovel-billed Kookaburra. This is a large Allokotosaur that has adapted to an abrasive diet of low-growing plants, as a bulk feeder, much like Nigersaurus. A pike-like long-jawed placoderm that has tooth-like projections along its jawbone. A future or panspermic scenario in which wild pigs evolve into rodent-like small animals, and diversify from that common ancestor, including large bat/pterosaur-like forms such as this. A 1-meter long descendant of Opabinia that has reduced its number of segments and become a fast-swimming oceanic predator. A pelagic, swi...