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WWD(?): Gypsonictops hypoconus

And now the final species for the Walking with Dinosaurs redux series, very fittingly the ancestor of the protagonist for the first episode of Walking with Beasts, the first of the lepticidans. That said, lepticidans are now thought to be paraphyletic and Gypsonictops is known only from teeth, so the entire thing is suspect and the restoration here as an elephant shre...

WWD(?): Meniscoessus robustus

This one moves slightly beyond Walking with Dinosaurs into its sequel, Walking with Beasts. Not the entire series though, just the prologue that uses stock footage from WWD to show that mammals were oppressed by dinosaurs until the asteroid hit. One of this small mammals shown living alongside Tyrannosaurus and Ankylosaurus is a small squirrel-like animal (in fact, ju...

WWD: Didelphodon vorax

The pugnacious, Tasmanian devil/badger/dog stem-marsupial animal thing that is a continuous and ever increasing presence in the episode. Of course, now we know that it wasn't nearly as Tasmanian devil/badger/dog-like in appearance as initially believed, as they only had teeth and a disassociated skull to go off of at the time, and more complete remains showing the appearance of the post-cranial...

WWD: Alphadon marshi

This represents the small dead mammal that was gassed to death by the volcanic fumes in that one scene. Not species was given so I just picked a smallish, possum-like mammal from Hell Creek. This genus also appeared in the Walking with Dinosaurs movie.

WWD: Coniophis precedens

Making a short appearance in the episode is an early snake (played by a modern day boa constrictor), its appearance has nothing to do with dinosaurs, but it's just to show that snakes were one of the newer groups of reptiles to appear on Earth (comparatively speaking). Indeed, early ophidians were beginning to experience their first true radiation and including some very large species by the Ma...

WWD: Melvius thomasi

Because I want to be comprehensive, the fish that the Quetzalcoatlus catches is included here too. If the scene were remade, the pterosaur would be catching the fish like a wading stork or heron in the shallows rather than plucking it from the water mid-flight. The fish isn't identified, probably because it was just meant to be a generic prey animal, but there was a myriad of aquatic f...

WWD: Thoracosaurus neocesariensis

One of the more unusual choices for this episode was the random insertion of a giant unnamed crocodilian that just appears to menace the lake shore. Supplementary material identifies this crocodilian as Deinosuchus, but there are a few issues with this. For one, Deinosuchus isn't known from the Maastrichtian, it's a strictly Campanian genus, and secondly, it is stated as being...

WWD: Thescelosaurus neglectus

Another one of the series' recycled animals and probably the laziest one yet; it's the Othnielia from the Morrison Formation episode, and they didn't even bother to change the colour. It isn't even identified on-screen or in any media (the American dub states they're Hypsilophodon, but that doesn't make any sense given the vast gulf in time and space), leaving its identity unc...

WWD: Dakotaraptor steini

Here we get into taxa which were not known to have existed at the time of original production, the unnamed dromaeosaur of the episode (a palette swap of the Utahraptor, itself an enlarged Deinonychus), which was identified in supplementary media as Dromaeosaurus. It was probably not called that by name in the episode because Dromaeosaurus is not definitively ...

WWD: Quetzalcoatlus northropi

With a wingspan of up to eleven metres across, standing as tall as a giraffe, and potentially weighing more than seven-hundred pounds, this is one of the largest animals to ever take flight, only rivalled by a few closely related (and contemporary) azhdarchids like Hatzegopteryx and Arambourgiania. Its skull alone was about eight feet in length. This is the only species here n...

WWD: Edmontosaurus annectens

The species depicted in the show as Anatotitan, but the name has since been sunk into the genus Edmontosaurus, joining a long line of dubious hadrosaurs, such as Trachodon, Anatosaurus, and (later) Ugrunaaluk. Which is too bad because Anatotitan was a pretty good name. This was the most common hadrosaur species in Laramidia at the end of the...

WWD: Triceratops prorsus

One of the most famous dinosaur genera and extremely successful and widespread during the Mid to Late Maastrichtian across Laramidia. This was possibly the very largest ceratopsian species, reaching up to nine metres in length and over ten metric tonnes. Every stage of life is known, from near-hatchlings to gigantic old adults, with skulls 3 metres long. This was the eternal rival supreme to 2023-08-16 06:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post

WWD: Torosaurus latus (Juvenile)

Young Torosaurus have never been discovered, so this one is based primarily on baby Triceratops, with slight modifications (namely a smaller nose horn and longer frill). Interestingly about Triceratops growth, the babies hatch with nubs that grow into upward-curving horns, which then begin to curve downwards as they approach adulthood. Most Triceratops you see in muse...

WWD: Torosaurus latus (Adult)

One of the last and largest of the ceratopsians, Torosaurus had a massive frill, and the largest known skull of any land animal in Earth's history, at up to three metres in length. The genus has a complicated taxonomic history regarding its potential synonymity with Triceratops, but most recent research supports its status as a separate taxon. Torosaurus' primary diff...

WWD: Ankylosaurus magniventris

One of the most heavily-fortified animals to have ever lived, this was probably the largest of the thyreophorans, with size estimates ranging between 7-11 tonnes and up to 9 metres in length. Even its eyelids were augmented into bony shutters, and of course its tail ended in a heavy, bony club which could be more than two feet wide. The tendons in the back half of the tail were ossified and the...

WWD: Tyrannosaurus rex (Infant)

Since the T. rex babies are also a not insignificant part of the episode, I'll include them here too. Despite tyrannosaur babies commonly appearing in popular dinosaur media, disappointingly little is actually known of them. In fact, the only verifiable tyrannosaur infant fossils were only described in 2021 and consists of an isolated jaw, tooth, and toe claw. Most depictions are there...

WWD: Tyrannosaurus rex (Adult)

Here we move on to the sixth and final episode of this seminal series. The age of the dinosaurs draws to a close, a cosmic haymaker is on its way to bring an explosive end to the Mesozoic Era. So what other choice was there than to focus on Hell Creek, the locale with the most recognizable dinosaurs ever? And of those, they just could not resist making the main character the most recognizable d...

Serina: Aureate Snurtle

Once a frozen wasteland, the south pole of Serina is now a lush, subtropical rainforest enjoying continuous heavy precipitation and twenty-four hours of sunlight a day in the summer (at the cost of twenty-four hours of darkness in the winter). Enjoying this bounty are the countless organisms which have rafted, flown, or swam to this unspoilt Eden millions of years ago, and now proliferate in co...

Serina: Blue Devil

At the apex of the hothouse age there roam herds of the largest animals that have ever tread upon Serina’s surface, mountains of flesh and bone unmatched in scale by any terrestrial vertebrates since the Mesozoic Era on Earth. This has resulted in the evolution of truly massive carnivores to take on such immense prey; during this period, the two dominant predator groups at the top of the Seri...

Canargator

Concept art of a bone-crushing skuorc predator primarily inspired by Erythrosuchus (particularly the very large head in proportion to its body), and secondarily by sebecosuchians. This sketch was done on March 6th, 2022, and became the basis for both the skuagator and the skuyena.

Pretenguin Scrapped

This was the initial drawing of the snake-necked pretenguin done back in November 30th/December 1st of 2021, but I thought the pose was really awkward and it wasn't that interesting looking as a concept, so I redid the whole thing (although the gupgop stayed the same). I'm not even sure it was called the "snake-necked pretenguin" back when I drew it, the file is just called "meridian pretenguin...

Blue Devil (WIP 3)

Snurtle (WIP 2)

Blue Devil (WIP 2)

Snurtle (WIP)

Blue Devil (WIP)

Sponsored commission for a vultrorc species known as the blue devil (seen in the background of the Dragon Attack illustration, commissioned by the same guy). Illustration shows one adult facing off against two adolescents over a skulossus carcass. 

(it got cut off a bit in some parts, since paper is only so big and a fixed size, but the full illustration will be enlarged a bit and wo...

Diyu: Pufferpus

Pufferpus (Sepiavis pernix)

The jetsquids are one of the more recently evolved groups within the subterranean biosphere (by the sluggish evolutionary standards of this environment), and have have only split off into two different species in this time, the larger jetter and the smaller pufferpus, which together occupy niches equivalent to birds-of-prey on the surf...

Diyu: Sketches (1)

A number of initial pencil sketches which were used for Diyu. As you can tell, some of the designs ended up being revised, many pertain to organisms which were never shown, while you can probably recognize several others which did get used for the final product (including a large number of dartfish, brachiopods, the moasquid, and the planimals). Most of these date from around 2014-2015.

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Serina: False Eelsnake

Due to their jet propulsion-based method of locomotion, the jetguppies are inherently at a disadvantage compared to other fish and snarks in flowing freshwater environments, limiting them to the ocean. However, there is one unique species which has managed to escape the sea, and not in the way that one might expect, as it has in fact escaped the ocean onto land. This is a process which is not u...

False Eelsnake (WIP 2)