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.

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, 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 lower jaws, forming an analogue of the jaws of a pike or dolphin.

An otter-descendant from the far future that converges upon an Archeocete-like shape, and lives permanently in the sea.

A descendant of the platypus that has a high metabolism, and swims quickly with flipper-like forelimbs, in pursuit of fish and shrimp.

A large (8+m) apex predator descended from Sphenosuchians, bipedal, with a blade like dentary beak.

I hope you liked these, stay tuned for more concepts of little "families/clades" of similar concepts in the future.

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