What does /an/ think of this stuff?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzPEpHYtXQ
>>2113530
That was the shit when I was a kid!
>>2113530
YES THIS WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME! HOLY SHIT! the fucking robot probes were so cool and those fucking crazy floating squids at the end! thanks OP I had forgotten all about this
Speculative biology is the tightest shit
>>2113530
I always got a hard on for the vampire sugar glider things, the tightest shit.
Also, THOSE PROBES DINDU NUFFIN THEY WAS GUD ROBITS WORKIN ON THEY MEDICAL DEGREE.
>>2113530
This might just give me motivation to finally play through Xenoblade Chronicles X. From what I've seen it looks a lot like this stuff.
>>2113530
speculative biology boner for this stuff
National Geographic's Extraterrestrial was better.
>>2113530
this is fake you idiots
>>2114321
Everyone knows that. It's still cool to think about
>>2113530
Speculative biology is the fucking coolest shit.
>>2114934
They're remaking it into a movie now.
>>2114934
>>2114940
That shit was so awesome. Do you know if it is just going to be a straight remake or are they going to come up with some new stuff? those guys were pretty imaginative and i'd love to see what else they could come up with. Terrestrial cephalopods were fucking cash
>>2114955
NO idea. Mostly likely vastly improved CGI. Warner Bros picked it up though.
>>2114959
Well i'm hyped either way. Anyone know of any other good speculative biology series?
>>2113735
>when I was a kid!
are you 15?
>>2114955
yfw it's based off the animated series with little focus on the animals
>>2114967
I would be beyond pissed, don't give them any ideas
>>2113530
This thing fails so fucking hard with technology.
By the time we are fucking able to visit alien planets we will have hit the singularity. It wouldn't be large, dumb, balloon probes exploring the planet but tech so advanced it's impossible to tell what it would look like.
At the very least it would be an android type colony that would embark on the mission. Depending on exactly how much humans decide to remain in humanoid bodies at least it would be just like normal people walking around .
>>2114964
2005 was 11 years ago, senpai.
>>2113530
I think I remember one of the probes dying? That made me sad.
>>2114964
It's been over 10 years now my friend.
>>2113530
the drake equation pretends to extrapolate from a sample of one.
there is no meaningful data that can come from a sample of one.
>>2114964
Turning 20 this year senpai.
>>2115026
they both die
>>2113530
I forgot all about this.
It's cool, it puts things into perspective of what could be out there. We're not the only ones, there isn't a way.
Looks like a Mata mata.
>>2114934
Fuck yes, there were some really cool concepts there.
These little niggas were my favorite.
>>2114934
>The last mammal episode with the hive spiders
;(
>these things are twice the height of the Statue of Liberty
>>2117255
According to Expedition, they're supposed to be over 600 feet tall.
>>2117266
Like I said, they were fucking massive yet were able to walk on the Amoebic Sea's surface.
I guess this a spec biology thread.
Me and my autism drew this for a spec biology project I never finished. I's 90 meters long and weighs 1500 metric tons. Its biggest teeth can be 2 meters long and weigh 150kg. It lives 50 million years in the future where most of the northern hemisphere is covered in ice but not the southern hemisphere. It's covered in armor in head to tail and uses it's massive axe-shaped head to ram through the ice to surface for air and ambush prey walking on the ice. Most small arctic mammals and birds depend on it to provide access to the water's surface.
>>2117946
i remember seeing this a while back, nice concept /an/on
>>2116136
that was nasty shit
>>2117946
that's cool, seeing a giant axe head burst through the ice to wreck shit sounds awesome.
>>2114964
I'm 18
>>2115026
soft cunt
>>2117946
That's real cool anon. I came up with a bird a little while ago with a similar axe-like head. It even has a nub on it, which is there to dissuade competitors from attacking it head on. It mainly attacks by lodging its beak deep into prey so that it can continue to attack with the claws on its arms, it's pretty much a fluffy terror bird with arms.
I called it a 'Sabrecock' after deciding that 'Thundercock' was too hilarious
srry for shit quality I literally took it with a DSi
>>2117946
>300+ foot cetacean covered head to tail in armor
>apex predator, not a filter feeder
Unless is shares the ocean with other equally massive animals to prey on it will starve.
Friendly reminder he's an amphibian, not a reptile.
I might as well join in.
>>2120599
>non smooth skin
>strong jaws
>parasagital orientation of limbs
>spends most of the time on saltwater bodies
>doesn't die after hours of activity in dry land
Yeah, no.
>>2120744
Notice the gills on his neck.
Also, Devonian-era amphibians lived in the sea.
>>2117946
There is no way in hell that thing could ambush anything. It would move way too slow. Even if it was a large, stumbling animal falling through the ice, it'd take forever for it just to turn around and get back to it and anything that slow on land + not a good swimmer would not be suitable for just waltzing out on thin ice unless it was a decent swimmer at the very least. And then at that point, it'd be too fast/maneuverable for it to catch.
Adding armor is just shit, at least keep it on it's head. Full body armor would just weigh it down and it already looks 'thin' for it's size. Whales are buoyant. They cannot be weighed down with such armor. It's just extra weight that would just take up too much energy.In an environment where basically everything is ice, it would need to save as much energy as it can. Just the amount of food it would need as a carnivore would be massive and there is not the slightest chance in hell something like this could possibly survive.
A 'horned' whale that smashes through ice is an awesome idea though. I draw fake animals/monsters too but most are basically just bird dinosaurs.
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>>2121037
A much older thing but basically my take on drawing a dragon. Lives by rocky shores, eating minerals/rocks, mollusks and whatever gets washed up when the tide goes out all while salt and calcium deposited through their pores builds up over their skin will eventually renders them immobile when they get too old. Unfortunately they are also incredibly stupid so they often just get pulled with the tides and drown because they can't swim.
>>2121050
Forgot my pic because I suck.
>>2121037
Yeah, the armor should probably stay on the forward section. It could still keep a solid 60 knots though.
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>>2121046
These are beautiful
>>2121051
Looks like Retro concept art.
>>2115026
>That made me sad.
That was intentional. Why else would they give them faces?
>>2120959
>Devonian-era amphibians
They aren't Lissamphibians tho. Also I never noticed Godzilla has fish-like gills (or gills at all), what the hell?
>>2114934
I still remember the BABUKARI.
Truly, our legacy.
>>2122156
To centralize the sensory apparatuses in a highly articulated structure?
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>>2121041
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>>2113530
To suggest that something like the mitochondrial endosymbiosis event could take place somewhere else is mind boggling and statistically impossible. If you want to get real extreme with this stuff start thinking of other ways symbiosis cold lead to multicellular organisms or giant symbiotic cluster organisms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion#Origin
Without it, we would be a planet of microorganisms.
>>2117340
>Like I said, they were fucking massive yet were able to walk on the Amoebic Sea's surface.
Darwin IV's gravity was significantly less than Earth's. The walkers are also far less dense than their size suggests.
>>2117340
Well, they weren't standing on the jelly, they were eating it with ghwir feet, so it's not like they didn't break the surface tension.
