Ophaned Concepts - Different Specbio ideas...
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. 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, swimming sea snail that evolved its attributes separately from the Pteropoda and Nudibranchs. A relative of Edestus that has 2 sets of parallel, elongate tooth whorls in both upper and ...