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Published: 2020-09-10 01:49:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 5269; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 0
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Though I won’t post any more official stuff from my picture book “Who is Out There?” but I will share concept art to show progress. These are four concepts for a predator on a high gravity planet, each uses a means to knock down their prey, using the planet’s high gravity to kill/severely injure them (though this won’t actually be directly shown in the book).The top left predator hunts like a mantis shrimp, using its powerful forelimbs to strike prey. The top right predator is a terrestrial relative of a flying creature also notice to the high gravity planet. It’s like a carnivorous ankylosaur, swinging its clubbed tail at high speeds thanks to biological mechanism similar to clicking beetles to create a spinning momentum. The bottom left predator is like a constrictor that lunges at prey to knock it down before coiling around it to suffocate it. Finally, the bottom right predator is a flying organism that uses a middle forelimb to knock down prey while diving at it then uses its remaining two forelimbs to stab it. It also uses its powerful tail to launch itself into the air.
As always comments and critiques are welcome.
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Comments: 3
Timoshauru5-VII [2020-11-06 17:52:24 +0000 UTC]
Never thought of that... high gravity being used by predators to knock over prey.
Innovative.
I have heard that it would be very likely to see creatures in high gravity worlds to slide or skid around. More efficient thanks to gravity.
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Tarturus [2020-09-10 03:53:04 +0000 UTC]
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