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...Even worse, the one thing here that does seem to share it looks like it waded straight out of a nightmare. The reedstalker (Equisepedis scloperostrus) is a smaller, more compact relative of the mantis stork , about 190 cm tall. Like it, it is a piscivore that wades through swamps on its hands and catches aquatic animals with the hooked claws on its feet. Unlike it, its most distinguishing feature is the bizarre look of the legs, whose coloration and filaments obviously seem to have adapted to make the limbs blend in more with the surrounding swamp plants...

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This post is an exercise in speculative evolution about an alien space station populated by monstrocities decended from Middle Devonian creatures.

Description
...Even worse, the one thing here that does seem to share it looks like it waded straight out of a nightmare. The reedstalker (Equisepedis scloperostrus) is a smaller, more compact relative of the mantis stork , about 190 cm tall. Like it, it is a piscivore that wades through swamps on its hands and catches aquatic animals with the hooked claws on its feet. Unlike it, its most distinguishing feature is the bizarre look of the legs, whose coloration and filaments obviously seem to have adapted to make the limbs blend in more with the surrounding swamp plants...

Read more about them here

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This post is an exercise in speculative evolution about an alien space station populated by monstrocities decended from Middle Devonian creatures.