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The calot, a species indigenous to Barsoom.
Read why I'm doing Barsoom stuff here: [link]
Read all about the calot here: [link]
(This is mainly to gain some readership and get something out of my blog! :) )
Yes, I'm working on the digital aspect of things. Bear with me.
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:iconzippo4k:
Wait... I don't remember... Did calot have claws? I only ask because most life on Barsoom was remarked early on as lacking nails, except the martian women (for whatever arbitrary reason).

I'm almost done reading the first book in the series. We have the second and the sixth as well, but I'll have to look somewhere else for the rest! Good stuff!

Also, have you seen Disney's "John Carter"? Despite the fact that it is Disney, and Woola was made to be kinda... derpy?... I found it to be quite good and what parts had been changed (specifically focusing on how characters interact with one another and their role in the story) I think were in many ways improvements.
Plus the green martians look spectacular in my opinion!

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"...And I ask you, the parents:
Have you ever tried turning off the tv...
sitting down with your children...
and hitting them?" -Bender, Futurama, season 4, ep.6: 'Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV'
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:iconaquaend:
Reading the book, I also imagined this animal as a mammal-reptile of the Permian. Something like a lycaenops.
In the bestiary of Barsoom also described a small reptile "darseen"

Very good drawing
More Working, Barsoom's wildlife!
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:iconralokone:
a calot, as a lizard?

most life upon barsoom cant be categorized like earth life

but things that are reptillian are mostly extinct
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:iconsphenacodon:
Not exactly a lizard. More like a reptilian mammal (or mammalian reptile, haha). I imagine it and the banth are related.

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~DSil Feb 8, 2008  Student General Artist
Cool idea! The textures are very well done.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination
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:iconsphenacodon:
Thanks!

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Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass
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:icondark-raptor:
I'm rather sure it belongs to Decapoda group :D

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plastic terrariums. Kornelia looked over Darek's shoulder and asked
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:iconsphenacodon:
:lol:

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:iconnemo-ramjet:
It's so nice to new stuff from you man! How many creatures do you think you'll have to do? The best question: Will you interpolate organisms NOT described in the book? (The possibilities with a decapod "vertebrate" body plan are mouth-watering.)

These days everybody is launching into brand-new speculative zoology, (Ie. Tim's Sauropsid world, Jonas' Terrasaurus, Renato's Squamozoic, Sauridiotherian world, etc.) sometimes a little too enthusiastically. I hope all of us (myself included,) will be able to complete them to the fullest, to ready-to publish books, without dropping them out.

Even if all people I listed produce one illustrated spec-zoo book, it's enough to forge a brand-new genre, one that holds a great potential.
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:iconsphenacodon:
Thanks!
I've got ahead of me (to finish in the next 100 years or so :P ) the thoat, apt, zitidar, orluk, plant man, kaldane, rykor, ulsio, arbok, banth, white ape, silian, green martian, great white lizard... Then there are always the Venus animals - bastos, tharbans, veres... I could interpolate new organisms to fill in gaps, the idea is certainly tantalizing...

I thought Tim was doing the Squamozoic?
I'm just doing this for the fun of it, don't worry.

Who knows? Speculative biology is the new Western! :)

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