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FOM: Maguma (Concept Art)

Maguma was also one of the earlier kaiju designed for the project, drawn back in April of 2018. Funny that Gezora, which was done much later and used the initial design virtually unaltered ended up being one of the most popular concepts in the project yet while Maguma, which had a much longer dev...

Serina: Bowel-Lord Gutsucker

Snarks have diverged into countless different forms, ranging from burrowing worms only a few millimetres long, terrestrial forms waddling upon four tetrapod-like legs, up to vast pelagic hunters larger than a school bus. But perhaps what is most extreme in their ranks are not what they have advan...

Gutsucker (WIP)

Crocosaurus

One of the animal designs for the Surviving Dinosaurs project, done back in early 2018. This animal was the apex predator of Australia, usurping the native dinosaurian hunters during the continent's aridification (the title is not its actual name), when their lower metabolisms made surviving on f...

Serina: White-Beaked Calacarna

This is the species of calacarna which appears in the background of the Oceans scene chasing the school of escardines. It didn't have a description written yet so it didn't actually appear in the compilation, unlike the kraviathan.

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During the hothouse age, the rising sea levels fl...

Serina: Jumbo Flapray

The most diverse and speciose variety of snark is one which is not often considered, for it is often overlooked or elusive. This is the niche of parasitic snarks, which occur in untold thousands upon thousands of species, accounting for nearly half of all living snark species. This may seem unbel...

Pancake Snark (WIP 2)

Pancake Snark (WIP)

For the record, I wasn't consulted in the creation of this species, but I'm sure no one will be disappointed by the creation of more snark species. And well, there's a lot of parasitic snarks that need to be made anyway...

WWD: Giant of the Skies (Redux)

All of them together now; this is the weirdest episode from a modern perspective consider how poorly the story and the science behind it aged and so quickly. You got the North American Polacanthus re-established as Hoplitosaurus even before the episode aired, Iguanodon ...

WWD: Scheenstia mantelli

For consistency, there's a fish here also because I included the fish in the last episode and the pterosaurs eat a couple fish in this episode. You may know this fish from when it used to be called Lepidotes and it was always seen being eaten by Baryonyx (which really should hav...

WWD: Sachicasaurus vitae

This is the pliosaur which appeared for eight seconds in the episode as the Ornithocheirus crossed the Atlantic. It's identified in supplementary materials as Plesiopleurodon, but there's just one problem with that: the episode is set in the Early Cretaceous, 127 million years a...

WWD: Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis

One of the many species once considered to belong under the umbrella of Iguanodon, it was freed from the tyranny of lumping and placed in its own genus in 2007 (although a number of species have also been lumped into it). In the episode, there were two species of Iguanodon featu...

WWD: Iguanodon bernissartensis

The very second non-avian dinosaur to be scientifically named, this dinosaur was subject to some of the most infamous wastebasket taxon dumping ever. Over the course of two centuries, roughly twenty different species ranging from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous from three different conti...

The Original Kraviathan

Before it ultimately ended up being used in Serina, I originally conceptualized the kraviathan for a nebulous no-K/Pg project which never really got beyond the preliminary stages (at one point it swapped to a more complex concept also involving dinosaurs, but the basic idea was a bit too convolut...

WWD: "Polacanthus" sp.

This is the North American Polacanthus species equivalent, which in the show has since been reclassified as Hoplitosaurus. Since this revamp cuts out the North America segment and sets it entirely in Europe, it's been replaced with a different polacanthine. 

In this c...

WWD: Vectiraptor greeni

The Walking with- franchise is a bit infamous for playing a bit fast and loose with what lived where and when, but one of the most notorious examples of this was the aptly named Utahraptor in Europe. There's no way they did this accidentally when where the animal is known is spe...

WWD: Polacanthus foxii

This is another one of those wastebasket nightmare taxa which plagues the series,  although it's not quite as bad as Ornithocheirus or any of the "Cruel Sea" species. The episode presents two species of Polacanthus, an American one and a European one, but the American speci...

WWD: Iberomesornis romerali

The small bird that appears in one notable scene mobbing the Ornithocheirus. Because the journey starts in Spain now, I suppose the scene would happen a bit earlier in this version. This was one of the earliest known members of a group of avialans known as enantiornitheans, which were in...

WWD: Caulkicephalus trimicrodon

The taxon which represents the generic, unnamed pterosaurs which appear in the episode (which I think might be recycled from the Quetzalcoatlus model in the last episode). You see a flock of them cruising over the waves and the Ornithocheirus steals a fish from one of them. They...

WWD: Europejara olcadesorum

So, in moving the locale to Europe-only, I have the main character starting his journey in Spain instead of Brazil (not impossible, as indeterminate "ornithocheirid" remains are known from the area at the time). Therefore, the tapejarid has been changed from Tapejara to Europejara 2023-05-17 09:24:52 +0000 UTC View Post