Origin: Hesperornis | Phosphatodraco | Microraptor | Green Anaconda

A large, 2.5 meter tall animal with a 5 meter wingspan, the Phosphatoraptor is feared by all creatures that it can swallow whole. Its head and neck come from the Hesperornis, which grants it a sharp beak filled with pointed teeth perfect for grasping prey. This creature is a quadruped, a trait inhereted from the azhdarchid pterosaur Phosphatodraco, which also lends its powerful flight muscles and proportions which might seem odd for a flying animal. The dromeosaur Microraptor brings four wings and a long, bony tail ending in a tail fan. The four wings make this creature an accomplished glider, being able to soar for over 40 kilometers without flapping its wings once. These Chimeras are primarily terrestrial hunters, and will work together to flush out prey from their hiding spots. Once their unfortunate victim has been caught in their beak, the creatures will use their jaws inhereted from an anaconda in order to be able to swallow animals much bigger than one would imagine, up to the size of a seven-year old. Unlike the snakes, however, they do not engage in canibalism, and will fiercely protect their superprecocial young from any dangers, which are usually represented by flying predators, as they nest on tall cliffs.  

Origin: Unbittern | Temminck's tragopan | Superb lyrebird | Velvet-purple coronet

This creature can best be described as a living piece of jewelry. It generally dwells in jungles, where it lives a similar life to the Sunbittern, which it resembles in terms of bodyshape and foraging behavior. Its colors are taken from the Coronet, which, in turn, make it look black at certain angles, however, when light hits its feathers just right, iridescent sheens of violet are revealed. Its tail is identical to the Superb lyrebird, granting this Chimera its name. However, this is not the only trait taken from this particular passerine, as the Lyrebittern is an accomplished mimic, being able to replicate anything from the roar of a tiger, to the talking of humans and even air raid sirens. Lastly, the Tragopan gives this hybrid a bright blue lappet and horns.

This creature's mating display can best be described as otherworldly. Although males and females are no different, the former still put on a show to impress the latter. It begins with a wonderfully complex song, that has the intention of drawing in the females. Then the male, will fan out his tail and open his wings, putting on a light show as well as a concert. Then, he inflates the lappet, closes his tail, opens his wings and stands upright. If the female is impressed then they will mate. Both parents partake in rasing young, in a nest in the trees. If a predator comes near they have a very ingenious defense mechanism. The parent guarding the nest will use their vocal skills to mimic larger predators, and since the nest is usually obscured by foliage the trick works very well. 

Origin: Dsungaripterus | Aleutian Tern | Canada goose | Sungrebe

With a wingspan of about four meters, Carrierbirds are amongst the most majestic Chimeras. They stand on four legs, courtesy of the pterosaur Dsungaripterus. DNA from these pterosaurs also make these Chimeras fairly competent on the ground. They have the heads and necks of geese, which makes them herbivores, however they will occasionally target small animals. These hybrids also have webbed feet, allowing them to swim well. Their colors, feathered wings, forked tail and colors come from the Aleutian Tern, which allows it to soar over great distances, as well as making them incredibly agile flyers. However, the most interesting thing about this bird is its reproductive habits. Just like the Sungrebe, this bird has a wing-pouch, leading to this bird's common name. They carry their eggs, usually two, but sometimes three or four, in their pouches, which allows them to travel great distances in search of food. Even though their young are superprecocial, these birds are fierce defenders of their young, often lashing out at any creature that might attack them, and as such, great flocks are common on the planet. 

Origin: Kelenken | Gallimimus | Vespersaurus 

The Plains Reaper is the terror of Chimarion's open areas. Reaching three meters tall and 6.5 meters long, this creature strongly resembles the Gallimimus, however, two major differences can be pointed out between the two. First, and most striking, is that this creature is a fearsome carnivore. Its skull, taken from the Phorusrhachid, is large and incredibly powerful, allowing it to easily dispatch a wide array of unfortunate prey items. The second difference from the typical ornithomimisaur body plan in this animal are its toes. Like Vespersaurus, this creature is functionally monodactyly, keeping two toes off the ground, with all the creature's weight being supported on the middle toe. This allows the Reaper to reach incredibly high speeds in pursuit of food, clocking in at an extraordinary top speed of 75 Km/h, which makes it nearly impossible for most animals to escape the beak of this creature. 

Notes: Initially this thing was also going to have Maip's arms, however I ultimately decided against that, as it would be overkill. Plus, when colliding with a prey item at top speed, the arms could be broken, which no carnivore wants. Also, the barrel chest would make acceleration much harder. 

Origin: Tristram's Storm Petrel | James's Flamingo | Maleo | Common starling

Living out on open waters, these creatures are amongst the most numerous vertebrates on the planet. Possessing a forked tail, and narrow wings, they are well adapted for flight at sea. Thier necks are much longer proportionally than any petrels. Their beaks are also different as, instead, those traits come from the James's flamingo, which allows them to filter-feed. The carotenoids from their diet also find their way into the bird's feathers, turning them pink when they are well-fed. They will filter-feed by dancing on the water's surface with their heads and necks upside-down, constantly moving from place to place in order to get as much food as possible. The breeding habits of these birds are also highly interesting. The young of these birds are also superprecocial, being able to fly on the day they hatch. In order to lay their eggs, the birds will invade under the cover of darkness, burying their eggs in the sand, and leaving no trace of their presence. The juveniles of this species are aerial hawkers, with it taking six or seven months for them to start filet feeding. When not breeding or eating, thse birds travel in large murmurations in order to be safe from predators, as there are a lot of creatures that would eat one of these birds. And one of them is the Greater false-friagte.

Origin: Halimornis | Rapaxavis | Northern Gannet | White-bellied sea eagle 

This bird is the bane of the flame petrel's existence. This bird is most similar to Rapaxavis in terms of body shape, however there are some differences. Firstly, it has the powerful clawed wings and tail streamers of Halimornis. DNA from the gannet allows this bird to also be a powerful diver, being able to reach speeds of up to 120 Km/h while diving. Moreover, this bird not only has a long, toothy bill, but it also has the powerful talons and size of the eagle, allowing it to easily capture prey, as well as bully smaller creatures in order for them to give up their kills. They are usually piscivores, catching fish either by diving or grabbing them with thier talons when they are close to the water's surface, however they also have an acquired taste for flame petrels. When hunting them, they will position themselves in such a way that they will hit as many members of the flock in a dive, and just as they are about to hit the water, they will abort their swoop, before leisurely collecting their prizes. Unlike their prey, thier young are not superprecocial, and as such, both parents take care of them. They do, however, fledge only 15 days after they hatch, being far more independent far quicker than other birds of prey. 

Origin: Deinocheirus | Maip | Borealopelta | Gastornis  

Amongst the most feared of the Chimeras that were created is the Maipocherius. This powerful creature has the general bodyshape and size of Deinocheirus, however there are a few key differences. This Chimera posesses the head of Gastornis, granting it a powerful, bone crushing bite, allowing it to pulverize anything it can fit in its beak, from large bones to the legs of prey. Moreover, the powerful arms and barrel chest of Maip allow this animal to land powerful strikes with its claws, which it often uses to hold prey in place in order to give a powerful bite. Lastly, this creature is covered head to tail in osteoderms, which both allow it to slash a targets with the sharp ones on its tail and to de incredibly well defended from anything taller that could threaten it. 

Origin: Utahraptor | Purple Starling | Boverisuchus | Shonisaurus  

This creature is as elegant as it is deadly. Covered from the base of the beak to the end of the tail, which forms a fan at its end, in iridescent feathers, this chimera is simply majestic, but don't let its beauty fool you. The elongated rostrum of this animal is full of ziphodont teeth, designed to cause as much blood-loss and chaos in as short a time as possible. Moreover, this creature posesses the more robust bulid and sickle claw of Utahraptor, allowing it to tackle prey to the ground. Its iridescent feathers alo help with confusing its prey, making it so it can not pin down the position of its attacker. Lastly, this creature is a facultative quadruped, running mostly on two legs, but taking off using all fours, to maximize efficeiency. 

Origin: Crimson-bellied woodpecker | Ailornis | Jackson's Chameleon | Green anaconda   

Amongst the strangest Chimeras is the Woodstalker. Although from a distance it resembles a normal woodpecker (albeit one that was greatly enlarged due to Teratorn DNA), this is not the case. As soon as it spots a small chimera scurrying about, it shoots out its tongue, and swallows the animal completely. It is far more adept at walking on the ground tue to Ailornis DNA. Its tongue is even longer than that of a woodpecker and chameleon put together proportionally, reaching a whopping 3 meters, allowing it to snatch pretty much anything. Finally, the jaw of this hybrid can dislocate, allowing it to swallow things as big as a hare in one mouthfull. 

Origin: Starfish | Sea cucumber | dromeosaurus | agamid lizard

An Apex predator that is radially symmetrical with 10 legs , each topped with a dromeosaur claw on each foot and a bleeding blood from its eyes to feed to it's young. 

Origin: Vampire bat | common leech | silk worm 

The ultimate blood sucker, it has the body of a vampire bat, the head of a leech and two feather antenna to help to find the way, since its sitgh is not very good, but has manged to bloodscuk some sessile organisms and megafaunal hebrivores and carnivores, is heavily social like vampire bats often sharing food with the group, produces eggs in a sort of ressitant egg bag similar to what leeches do, can produce silk to some degree thoroutgh mouth glands which they use to make stronger nests but is not very developped yet. 

Origin: Yanornis | microraptor | litgh producing dinoflagelate 

A rather typical maniraptoran, though its hindbody is that of a microraptor and their top body that of Yanornis, has two specilsied bags under its eyes that produce bluee litgh due to simbiotic dinoflagelates that it uses in comincation, eats small terrestrial animals and aqautic ones 

Origin: Muntaj | Lucanus cervus | common bustard 

head of a bettle with its powerful anlters, body and some scent glands of a muntaj and the wings of a bustard, is a very bad fliers bare yable to flap but can use it to scape predators. Its and hebrivore thoguh it soemtiems eats fungui and carrion. females lack the antlers present in males.

Origin: Quetzalcoatlus northropi | Giant hummingbird (Patagona gigas) | Megalania (Varanus priscus) | Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)

Dragonferns are a mixotrophic chimera with a wingspan that reaches 8 meters and a body lenght of 3 meters. The upper part of their body is covered in photosynthetizing feathers while the underside is covered in non-photosynthetic feathers.

Dragonferns are diurnal and enter a state of torpor during the night.

Early in their development a dragonferns' body is entire covered by photosynthetizing feathers and they spend the majority of their time in a state of torpor that is interrupted mostly by feedings in this state they are mostly protected by their mothers. As they grow older the youngs start to become more active, this culminates when their underside sheds the photosinthetizing feathers and grows non-photosynthetizing ones in their stead, signifying that they reached adulthood. It is very common for young adults to eat the feathers they recently shed.

Male dragonferns use their non.photosinthetizing feathers as a mating display, and they are usually colored an orage-yellow color. 

Origin: Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa) | Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) | Pteridium aquilinum  | Apis mellifera 

This is chimera is a small generalist mixotroph.

Fernroaches have a body that reassembles mostly that of a madagascar hissing cockroach, with the exception of their head which ends in 8 tentacles and has eyes reassembling that of a cephalopod more than an insect's.

Fernroaches reproduce throught internal fertilization, but once fertilized the females release millions of spores which then grow in a lifestage that mostly reassembles a regular fern (Which we will call larval ferns), larval ferns then will produce multiple adults from organs hidden bellow the ground, a singular larval fern usually produces 5-6 adults.

Adult fernroaches usualy group thogheter in pseudo-hives, unlike bees fernroaches don't depend on a queen and instead they reproduce freely between eachother, pseudo-hives are regulated by emergent behaviours between fernroaches and pheromones. Pseudo-hives are used mainly to store the honey like substance that fernroaches produce.

Because of the particular way fernroaches reproduce, young adults aren't bound to a particular pseudo-hive, but will instead wander until they find one, which they will become bound to. If an unbound adult can't find a pseudo-hive for too long then they will start to generate pheromones necessary to "recruit" other unbound adults and start a new pseudo-hive. 

Origin: Capuchin monkeys | Mimic Octopus | Raven | Short-beaked common dolphins  

Kosmikotechne is an arboreal omnivore. Its body reassembles that of a capuchin monkey and is covered in feathers, the head of a kosmikotechne is composed of eight tentacles which surround a central beak. The tentacles aren’t covered in feathers and their skin is capable of changing color, this is used mainly as a form of communication.

Kosmikotechne are highly social and tend to form large communities.

Kosmikotechne have a remarkable intelligence, their neural density is magnitudes greater than that of any mammal and their brain is divided in nine lobes. They are capable of tool use and kosmikotechne communities have often been witnessed processing food to make it easier to eat by crushing, grinding and mixing it.

Kosmikotechne are capable of alternating between asymmetric slow-wave sleep and full-brain sleep, in kosmikotechne communities this will often be used by a portion of the individuals in order to be alert for the entirety of a day cycle in order to keep guard and warn the others of any danger, guards have been obserbed as alternating between guard role and full sleep in a rotatory pattern.

Origin: triceratops (Triceratops horridus) | stegosaurus (Stegosaurus stenops) | brontosaurus (Brontosaurus excelsus) | T rex (Tyrannosaurus rex)

A large omnivorous dinosaur around 11 metres tall which typically eats tree leaves in herds of either females and young or bachelor groups of brothers, uncles, and cousins. Their leaf shaped teeth allow them to bite vegetation, their predators are many but due to their parental care and dangerous weapons on their tails and head they have managed to thrive in this chaotic environment

Origin: dimetrodon (Dimetrodon limbatus), pteranodon (Pteranodon longiceps), mosasaurus (Mosasaurus hoffmannii), sarcosuchus (Sarcosuchus imperator) 

While their contemporate, the dinosaurus. Travels in herds in the forests, the antidinosaurus soars above. With a 9 metre long wingspan, long fluked tail, crocodillian like head, and sail on their back they are certainly strange looking. While they would usually feed on fish they have taken to scavenging carcasses and hunting ground animals like injured catfishy zebracorns in the lacking marine ecology 

Origin: guppy (Poecilia reticulata), turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) 

Like their “relatives” in the sea, the flat lanterns. The goopi is quite a strange looking animal, feeding on small crustaceans like triclops and also algae. 

Origin: house fly (Musca domestica), blue darner dragonfly (Rhionaeschna multicolor), blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum), march brown mayfly (Rhithrogena germanica)

The ultrafly, the fly to end all flies, eating each other and carrion. Wowie! The ultrafly sure can fly! 

Origin: skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica), grays leaf insect (Pulchriphyllium bioculatum) 

At a glance, identical to a large fernmoss frond. This small ambush predator hides in wait to capture an unassuming ultrafly

Origin: arabian butterfly fish (Chaetodon melapterus), cabbage white (Pieris rapae), new zealand rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris) 

Flittering through the canopy drinking nectar and snatching small insects. The butterflying fish is a strange animal, who knows what will happen with this animal in the future?

Origin: worm snake (Carphophis amoenus), cacelian (Dermophis mexicanus), earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)

Deep in the soil

dirt abound

A strange creature sits

Akin a mound

Scales like the snake

Slime like the worm

And golly golly can it squirm! 

Origin: Giant Cheetah | Dogo Argentino | Thylacoleo carnifex

A Hybrid that combines both of the best attributes from 2 incredibly versatile, Carnivoran clades. With this false, GMO’d cryptid having a flexible backbone, large branchial tubes connected to an expandable pair of lungs, and shortened muzzle to allow for better air transfer while sprinting. Donor coming from the extinct Giant Cheetah. Somewhat longer snout than Giant Cheetah progenitor. Which also lends itself a bigger bite bite force from a larger masseter muscle to disconnect the prey’s carotid and cervical bones, originating from the Dogo Argentino and Thylacoleo carnifex DNA. Derived Dewclaw with fully functional, articulation range capped with a large thumb claw that's lifted off the ground, being similar to a dromaeosaur's sickle claw, except also being retractable. Which also aids in both killing and climbing behaviors, as well as fully retractable claws which come from Thylacoleo carnifex. The Bloodless Howler are socially oriented with small packs of 5-8 members, relying on each other for protecting their litters, fighting off dangerous intruders and helping maintain order within their packs. When expelled a small coalition of 3 males hunt big megafaunal prey. 

Origin: Italian Crested Newt | Bigeye Trevally | Arizona Bark Scorpion 

This chimera has part of their body protected by chitin which also somewhat aids in preventing desiccation whenever in arid climates, sometimes being seen within deserts or savannahs. Retaining a salamander-like bauplan, but instead has sensitive hairs to sense changes within any environment and for prey, it has an insectivorous diet as well. Though due to it’s head being similar to the Giant Trevally, it kills prey using their high-speed ramming within the water. Though it still wields some venom glands on it’s tail to defend from potential predators.

Origin: house mouse (Mus musculus) | soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) 

General mouse-ness+ telescoping generations, parthenogenesis, occasional winged individuals

Created as the ultimate feeder mouse for the smaller chimeras the musphids are remarkably fecund small herbivores. They primarily differ from regular mice by the ability of the females to reproduce asexualy, with babies even being born pregnant, though they won’t give birth until they grow up. In early summer they will produce winged males and females which are not born pregnant and will fly off and mate in a massive migration. These wings are anatomically the same as the aphid’s wings, looking out of place on an otherwise normal mouse.

Origin: Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) | emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) 

Arms, fur, milk, placental gestation, social structure, head and facial features+stance, size

The bootleg man is a bipedal primate created as a loose approximation of a human. Whiles it is a featherless biped with broad flat nails they lack the intelligence of humans. The bootleg man's diet consists of plants, insects and the occasional fish or shellfish. Thanks to their penguin ancestry they are descent swimmers, especial for primates.Bootleg men walk upright with a waddling gait but are also capable climbers using their powerful forelimbs.

Origin: Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) | Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus mariannus) | Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) | Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis)   

Size, scales, venom, carnivory, parthenogenesis, general body plan, cannibalism, eggs +wing structure, endothermy, fur, fruit eating, giant ears+ Soaring ability, hollow bones, excellent sense of smell, ability to eat carrion+ three pairs of limbs

The Dragon is a large carnivore, though not particularly huge by chimera standards. The eat mostly meat but will also eat fruit fairly commonly. Dragons are covered in a mix of scales and hair, giving a superficial resemblance to a pangolin. They have three pairs of limbs, with the middle being a pair of bat like wings. These wings are not exactly like those of the Mariana fruit bat, being better built for soaring. While their size and weight mean that take off are hard for them, they are able to soar on thermals once they are airborne. Like the komodo dragon they are able to produce males by parthenogenesis. They lay an average of twenty eggs per clutch but provide no parental care apart from nest building and adults may even eat their young in times desperation. Although partially mammalian they do not produce milk. Chimarion Dragons are omnivores with a strong preference for meat and other animal products such as eggs but they will readily eat fruit as well 

Origin: Red maple (Acer rubrum) | wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) | Common salp (Salpa fusiformis)   

Helicopter seeds+ diet, size, precocial chicks, body form, flight+budding of clones

Salple birds are large galiforms notable for their production of “helicopter eggs”. Resembling an over sized maple seed with a single turkey tail feather for the wing these are produced on the underside of the body. Instead of a seed the payload is a salple egg containing a clone of its parent. Once matured these eggs are shed in batches of three to five during flight and hatch into precocial chicks. These chicks are on their own and most will be eaten before adult hood. Salple birds are also capable of reproducing in the normal way for birds and will take care of their offspring . As a result the shed eggs are mostly useful for colonizing an area quickly. 

Origin: Squash bug (Anasa tristis) | pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) | Mistletoe (Viscum album) | lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)   

Piercing mouth parts, plant fluid diet+ General body form, slow metabolisum, lethargic pace+ branching stems and leafy growths+ stinging poison, cnidocytes

The mistletoe sloth moves very slowly and feeds on the sap of the trees it lives in. They have multiple thin, branching growths on their backs packed with photosynthetic cells. These growths are supported by cartilage and act like leaves. These leaf growths provide a substantial part of the mistletoe sloths energy. If it has the option a mistletoe sloth will remain near motionless on a single branch for multiple hours each day, sucking the sap and basking in the sunlight. The leaf growths are covered in cnidocytes which help to defend the sloth from opportunistic predators. While they are primarily tree dwellers they are surprisingly adept swimmers as well. 

Origin: Anisodon grande | Cattle (Bos taurus) | African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) 

general body form, size+horns, ruminant stomach+ trunk, tusks

Horned chelicophants are large forest dwelling mammals with a complex digestive system. They use a combination of their claws and trunk to pull down branches and can use their tusks, horns, and claws for defense. While they prefer to browse high in the trees they poses a ruminant digestive system which enables them to get the most out of almost any forage.

Origin: swan mussel (Anodonta cygnea) | Physcomitrium patens 

Glochidium larva, bivalved shell+ mossy body, photosynthis

At first glance rhe mosscase looks like a dead mussel shell, gaping open and filled with moss. It is not dead however and if disturbed it will rapidly close. Most of the body of a mosscase consists of a mass of moss like growths which are attached to the inner side of the mantle. The mantle and adductor muscle comprise the majority of the rest of the “flesh” with a sturdy shell providing protection. 

Origin: Astropecten aranciacus+ Megasyllis nipponica+Polycarpa aurata

arms, tube feet, water vascular system+ schizogamy+ urn shaped body, tadpole larva,basket like pharinks

As an adult he Crawling baslkei looks like a tunicate riding a starfish. Physiologicly that is more or less what it is, with the tunicate's tunic and digestive system sitting atop the locomotive system of a starfish. The larva are fairly normal for tunicates. When it settles down however the tail region develops its own miny brain and reproductive system. Instead of being reabsorbed it then swims off to spawn, hopefully producing more larva before. starving to death. The head region mean while metamorphosizes into the adult. Both the adults and the tail are either male or female if the tail is female the head is male and vice versa 

Origin: Bay scallop (Argopecten irradians)+ nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus )

arms, tube feet, water vascular system+ schizogamy+ urn shaped body, tadpole larva,basket like pharinks

Mantal enveloping body, eyes on mantle margin, bivalved shell+ small mammal physiology, currling instict, clawed limbs, four babies at a time

Armadillos with a scallop shell on their back. The eyes lining the fringe of the shell give them 360 vision. They have no eyes on their heads however. The shell makes them less flexible than a normal mammal. When startles they curl into a ball and the shell closes around them

Origin: Hypsibius dujardini+ common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 

tiny size, legs, diet, ability to enter cryptobiosis+ body shape,reproductive system

The Jorminigandr is a tiny worm with eight legs ending in small claws. They are the juggernauts of the microscopic world within moss and bodies of freshwater. They are hermaphroditic and produce slime cocoons full of eggs. These eggs can enter a state of dormancy when they dry out. In this state of cryptobiosis they are remarkably resilient. While they are the same size around as their tardigrade "ancestor" they are several times longer, with their limb pairs spaced evenly along the body and separated by limbless segments. 

Origin: Megalancosaurus preonensis+ Ramisyllis multicaudata+Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus)+green iguana (Iguana iguana)

Prehensile clawed tail+ Branching body+ single pair of limbs, short neck+head, dentition, diet

The pollyguana appears to be a mass of scaled tentacles, each ending in a single claw. At the middle of this however is the front half of an iguana. Using this mass of tentacles tails the pollyguana climbs about in the trees and pulls branches down into reach of its mouth. While they are quite mobile in the trees they are much slower on the ground. As an ectotherm they are restricted to tropical and subtropical environments. 

Origin: Black howler (Alouatta caraya)+giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)

Loud howling calls, powerful prehensile tail, body shape, diet, limbs, mammalian physiology+arms, suckers, ability to eat meat, color and texture changing skin

A tree dwelling omnivore with a total of thirteen limbs. The triskaidekapus has eight facial appendages, created from the octopus's arms, surrounding its mouth. The mouth itself is fairly normal for a primate, a necessity as they still suckle like the howler monkey. In addition to their tail, arms, and legs these facial appendages are used to climb through the trees. Both the facial appendages and the distal portion of the tail have octopus like suckers lining their inner surface. Their skin can change color and texture. On the face and the facial appendages, they use to communicate with others up close while their loud calls are used to communicate over large distances. The skin on the rest of the body is also able to change color and texture, but it is less visible because it is covered in fur. They are fairly intelligent and live in large troops. 

Origin: lobsters  | Hornet 

Hornets with the heads and pincers of lobsters

Origin: Anomolocaris | T. rex | Kelenken | Sea angel (Clione limacina)  

A large predator that walks on 2 capable of reaching the size of an elephant, has plate armor reminiscent of the Anomolocaris and developed eyes. Its round mouth is fed by bands of incisive teeth and tentacles that allow it to fine-tune with the way it eats, allowing it access to places that other predators are less able to reach, such as bone marrow or pieces of meat that are delicately stuck on the bone. His legs are scaly and have large prey and his small wing-like hands are used as courtship and communication tools. They are stalking predators that are not afraid to collide with their bodies with their prey and are able to run fast enough to grab their prey by the head and overwhelm them with a paralyzing liquid before swallowing them alive. They are hermaphrodites and during the breeding season, when they meet each other they start a battle of who is stronger as a first display of wings to avoid an unnecessary fight. The loser is infertile by the winner if not decided by a fight. 

Origin: Dynastes hercules | Maratus volans | European wasp (Vespula germanica) 

An eusocial creature similar to the Hercules beetle, only more colorful. They live in nests made of wood pulp, webs and leaves inside large trees. They are flying predators capable of hunting small creatures or scavenging for corpses. There is an orderly hierarchy of queen, workers and soldiers, whose soldiers are less colorful but equipped with chitinous horns similar to the Hercules beetle and are excellent for repelling enemies. In the event that an intruder comes to their territory, the workers communicate with their colorful belly movements, wing covers and pheromones to signal to others that there is trouble and with them they bring the soldiers to the area to attack the intruder with their sharp horned appendages or chelicerae in order to cause damage to the intruder and drive him away. They have six legs with another pair of special legs used as communication or courtship tools between the male and the queen. 

Origin: Typhloesus wellsi | Pentecopterus | Ocean sunfish (mola mola) | Manta rays 

A relatively large marine creature that uses large fleshy fins that moves elegantly in the water and filters plankton with a retractable radula that comes out of its mouth and passes water with its mouth. They usually move in large flocks and move throughout the year following water sources throughout the seasons. They start very small and grow over a period of years, so that only a few survive to adulthood, but to compensate, they release a very large amount of gametes into the water.

Origin: Growingkia canadensis | Gorgonia flabellum | Oscarella lobularis  

A chimeric creature used in its role as a coral reef builder, with its tough structure, the ability to reproduce by budding, and symbiosis with photosynthetic bacteria, they serve as the basis for perfect coral reefs and are more durable than anything else. 

Origin: Luidia senegalensis | Herpetogaster collinsi | Appendicularia sicula | Branchiostoma lanceolatum   

A small marine creature up to a few centimeters in size, acting in filtration. It has the odd appearance of a starfish with one end being larger and the other arms extending forward, helping it collect plankton in the water. It has a small spine with a gill house at the end near the mouth. 

Origin: Bathyphysa conifera | Bathocyroe fosteri | Saccorhytus coronarius | Pliciloricus enigmaticus   

A gelatinous creature that behaves like a jellyfish in terms of life cycle, but when they reach the adult stage, they form a strange appearance of arms around a group of their kind, giving them the appearance of a slightly spiky crown. It is a creature that glows in the dark and eats plankton and sometimes also plankton.  

Origin: Raphus cucullatus| Embasaurus | Arctic hare 

A theropod-like chimaera, with a large, robust beak and teeth. I usually live in groups with members of their own species and move together. They have very strong legs capable of running quickly, but they are not particularly strong following this. They have small wing-like forelimbs that are used mainly as courtship and signaling tools. They have excellent senses that allow them to find their food.

They are relatively medium-sized herbivores that reach a height of half a meter and are able to run long distances by chance and detect a predator or danger.

Origin: Housefly | Arescon aspidioticola | Adhemarius gannascus  

This chimera species is very small, around 3-6 mm, which feeds mainly on nectar and rotten materials. They are chimera creatures with a large wing and one twisted wing that is used for navigation and flight direction. Their day feeds on nectar. Their life cycle is very fast. 

Origin: Red knee tarantula | Woodlouse | Red land crab   

A small chimeric species, reaching about 2 cm, with pincers and an appetite for plant fibers and cellulose, although rarely also capable of eating rot and smaller creatures. They have strong jaws capable of crushing cellulose and a digestive system with bacteria capable of utilizing the energy from decomposition. When they are threatened, they are able to spread hair that causes irritation to small creatures, so that it is able to escape from predators if necessary. 

Origin: Machaeridia | Bispira brunnea | Oxycomanthus bennetti | Ensis ensis 

A marine chimeric animal, ranging from a few centimeters to a single meter, most of its body is buried in sand and covered with armor plates, and what is usually seen are long and colorful tentacles that collect materials from the water into the body of the worm-like creature. They are often found in colonies next to each other and spread throughout the ocean floor. 

Origin: Scotoplanes globosa | Collinsovermis monstruosus 

A species of marine chimera that usually lives in the depths of the ocean, looking for food that has fallen to it. Walks slowly and uses thin tentacles to collect the debris and pieces of food on the bottom to its mouth. On his back there are spikes used for protection. It reaches a size of 15 cm. They produce a large amount of eggs that are used as plankton and only a few survive and mature into the current form with spines. 

Origin: Euphausia superba | Gleba cordata | Berghia coerulescens

A very tiny marine pigmented chimeric creature that filters plankton during their lifetime. They are used as a basic source of their food chain because of their explosiveness and the special reproduction ability that works according to cycles - the eggs fall to the depths of the ocean and they develop safely in the depths and at night they rise before the ocean to feed on the plankton before in the morning they return to the depths for safety. They have a wide body that helps them maneuver and catch currents and their color is used for a strange camouflage that is deceptive due to their small size and they move in huge colonies. 

Origin: western gray kangaroo | Argyrolagus palmeri | Leptictidium | Four-toed jerboa 

A small chimeric animal between 4 cm and 17 cm that moves by jumping in herds in forest and desert areas. They are mostly herbivores although they are occasionally capable of biting chimerical insects or small creatures. They have a thick and long tail that allows them to navigate while jumping and are also known to have the ability to climb if necessary. They have a developed sense of smell with the help of the long snout and hands that are a little short but help them in climbing or catching. They are surprisingly very fast and efficient. They have a pouch where the fetus grows and develops after it is born and is fed with milk there. Unlike other marsupials, their reproduction rate is aided by the uterus so when the fetus is born, it is sufficiently developed and more similar to that of a placenta. 

Origin: Saltwater crocodile  | Bottlenose dolphin  | Giant Pacific octopus   

With a crocodile's strong jaws, a dolphins echolocation, and an octopus's camouflaging skin, a dangerous predator of the seas is born 

Origin: Flying Fox | Dragon Millipede | Electric Eel | Cuttlefish 

Description: A stealthy, terrifyingly deadly hunter, it flies through the night skies at incredible speeds, perfectly silent. An aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial hunter, able to breathe with both gills and lungs, each of its many sharp legs is tipped in claws and edged with fins that aid it in swimming, as does the large, joined caudal, anal, and dorsal fin. It is covered in heavy armor, and can be observed crawling through the jungle canopy, searching for fruits to munch on or prey to hunt, utilizing it’s deadly breath attack of hydrogen cyanide or its ability to launch deadly bolts of lightning. When not outright engaging in battle, the maneuverable skin atop its armored carapace changes shape and color depending on its environment, making it almost entirely invisible. When ambushing something, it can launch coiled tentacles from its mouth to strike at lightning speeds. It is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long, and has a wingspan of about 12 feet (3.66 meters).

Diet: Fruits and a variety of fauna.

Size: 8 foot (2.5 meter) length and 12 foot (3.66 meter) wingspan

Environment: Jungles, usually tropical but occasionally subtropical, both in the canopy and the waterways, though they can rarely be seen on the ground.

Other: Armored Carapace beneath skin, fins and claws on its many sharp legs, gills and lungs, Entirely silent flight, skin changes color/texture, grappling tentacles when close enough. Also utilizes electric shocks and clouds of hydrogen cyanide.

Origin: Surinam Toad | Hatzegopteryx | Swordfish | Giant Bamboo  

These titans of the skies are among the largest creatures of their time, and perhaps some of the oddest. The gargantuan female travels with a harem of males, usually around ten, whom cling to the undersides of their mates wings or hang on to their mates long, bamboo-like tails. They have an ever-present mating season, and after fertilizing the eggs the males will carry them up to the females back and use a specialized foam to lock them in place, where the females skin will rapidly grow over them. The young then photosynthesize there, on their mothers back, underneath a thin layer of skin, slowly storing energy, as the mother uses the remaining surface area of her body and wings to photosynthesize for herself.

Upon encountering potential prey, males will actively hunt and herd prey, using their sharp snouts like swords and spears in combination with their claws and jaws to grapple with prey if necessary, herding and gathering it for the female as they consume some for themselves. Both sexes also retain their gills, and males will sometimes dive beneath the surface of the waves to hunt for food.

Occasionally, if being hunted by the rare predator or stumbling upon a particularly large group of prey, the more mature younglings will burst out of their mothers back by the thousands, causing surprisingly minimal damage to the mother during this process, and swarm the skies like clouds of animated daggers, spearing into and through opponents with their razor sharp snouts like swarms of airborne piranhas. After their feeding frenzy, they will return to their mothers back, where they will once again have skin grow over them and they photosynthesize in a torpor like state until they are almost mature. This process can take upwards of 100 years, which is but a fraction of a fully grown adults lifespan.

When they have almost matured, individuals will leave one by one, females to fly the skies and males in search of different females, recognizing their siblings by scent. Upon leaving their mother, their stored up energy allows them to rapidly grow into their adult sizes, similar to how bamboo stores its energy in its rhizomes.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Opportunistic Omnivory

Size: Females can grow up to 150 feet long, with a wingspan of 300 feet. Males are a much more modest 15 feet long, with a wingspan of only 30 feet. Young Himmelgiganten are significantly smaller than even this, usually only 3 inches long with a 6 inch wingspan.

Environment: All Tropical Skies, and occasionally Subtropical ones

Other: Skin-brooding, Youngling Swarming, Male Hanging, long bamboo-tails, powerfully built clawed legs (rarely used by females), Sword-snout, gills and lungs

Origin: Therizinosaurus | Hairy Frog | North American Porcupine | Capybara   

Appearing to be giant, capybara like creatures with shaggy fur and long, fluffy tails, these animals are chill to hang out with, and will do so with anyone and anything. Attack any of them, however, and all nearby will show you just how deadly they can be. From underneath their abundant fur, long, powerful hind legs will support this creatures bipedal gait, and well built forearms can grasp at opponents. When feeling particularly threatened, they will cause various parts of their bodies to snap, pushing giant claws out of their forelimbs and becoming covered in a thick coat of bony, barbed quills, injuries which are healed incredibly quickly and body parts that can be put back into place with barely a thought.

Diet: Low-growing Flora, both terrestrial and aquatic

Size: Normally appears around 15 feet long, but is really around 35 feet long, unfolding itself when it is entering combat.

Environment: Tropical Rainforest

Other: Giant Retractable Claws, Webbed Feet, Powerful Legs (Jumping), Retractable Quills, soft fur, usually gentle demeanor

Origin: Bowhead Whale | Glaucus Atlanticus | Titanoboa | Kryptoglanis shajii (Toothy Cave Catfish) 

These long, powerfully built creatures are able to survive in almost any subterranean environment, and tend to live in the deep caves while hunting in shallower caves and the area around them. It’s jaw is almost 25 feet long, and on top of that can be unhinged to swallow much larger prey if necessary. Their eyes appear to be on their bottom jaw, and they are pattered with a variety of deep blues, greys, blacks, and whites. They can breathe underwater, both in freshwater and saltwater, as well as on land, and can thrive beneath thick ice sheets with their heavy blubber and hot deserts by producing a cooling slime. If struck by poison, they simply add that poison to their own deadly mucus sting, instead of being affected by it.

Between meals, these creatures tend to go into a deep torpor, not using any energy until they need to hunt for their next meal. They can spend these on any surface by binding themselves their with mucus, and have been known to bind themselves to the ceiling in order to ambush unsuspecting prey beneath them the moment they awake if such an opportunity arises.

Young of this species tend to stick to shallow caves in more temperate, subtropical, and tropical climates, venturing out to devour smaller prey items as they grow. They are generally much more active than their adult counterparts.

Diet: Carnivore - Any and all fauna that wander into/near its cave

Size: Upwards of 80 feet long as an adult

Environment: Any and all caves worldwide

Other: Heavily muscled, Incredibly large mouth with thousands of needle-sharp teeth, ability to unhinge jaw, incredibly toxic mucus, gills and lungs, ability to enter torpor until next meal, climbing, swimming, high mucus production, Eye appears to be on lower jaw but it actually just lives upside down, take poison and make their own.

Origin: Giant Siphonophore | Scaly Foot Snail | Giant Tube Worm | Black Dragonfish 

Ethereal beauties of the deep sea, these magnificent creatures behind their lives as tiny planktonic creatures with tough shells and sleek fins, just large enough to feed off of smaller zooplankton, phytoplankton, and marine snow with their tiny tentacles and suction mouths. They tend to congregate in the Twilight Zone, rising up the water column at night en mass.

Once they mature, these creatures come together and fuse to form one of the most magnificent sights in the deep sea. A long, thin body, reinforced with spikes of shell, shards of bone, and plates of metal. From between the gaps in this armor, tentacles weave and flow, highlighting each black metal plate with a deep crimson glow. Near the front end of this organism, a large air bladder is shielded under armor just behind a large head, with rows of clear, razor sharp teeth filling the mouth and lining either side of the back like spines. It’s eyes, massive orbs of deep crimson set back into its elongated skull, stare out at the pitiful prey lured in by the glowing blue whiskers sprouting by the dozens near its head and trailing the length of the creature, passing by the sharp metal crown and large fins just behind the head, as well as the two rows of giant tube worms and their tubes sprouting from the creatures back.

Just bulky enough to be menacing, just beautiful enough to be spooky. A truly ethereal being.

Diet: Chemosynthetic Bacteria (of multiple varieties), filter feeding, carnivory, Marine Snow

Size: Upwards of 160 feet long

Environment: Deep Sea

Other: Glowing Tentacles/feelers, Air Bladder, Large Mouth, Invisible Fangs, metal Armor, Tube Worms tubes down back, giant lures, red lights, large eyes, pitch black skin and armor, structure reinforced by bone, shell, and metal, big fins, some bulk but not enough to be incredibly noticeable

Origin: Dollocaris | Glow Worm | Hummingbird Hawks Moth | Water Strider 

Throughout the tropical rainforests of Chimarion, glimmering creatures fly through the canopy, seeming to flit in and out of existence like tiny little spirits of light. These are lettånd, an entirely arthropodian chimera that acts as an almost invisible pollinator for a wide variety of plants. Its fairly large wings (in comparison to its body size) are perfectly clear, and in flight it flaps them so fast it creates the optical illusion of invisibility.

When they are not pollinating a plant, they may do a fly by of a plants leaves, ripping off small pieces as a snack on the go. The only time they ever really stop moving is when they sleep during the day, hiding themselves away high in nooks and crannies in the canopy, or when they land upon the surface of the water every night to feed a socialize.

Here, they truly seem like mystical fairies, especially in groups, as they land upon the waters, appearing out of thin air and spreading glowing threads all around. They create nets between their forearms to sift for plankton, little lines that fish for the zooplankton and other small critters, the only meat of any kind in this organisms diet. During this period, its small, armored carapace glows and flashes intermittently like the twinkling of a distant star, different series and parts of the body flashing to communicate a multitude of things to its neighbors, such as locations of various flowering plants and perilous areas of the river.

Their communication is not a sign of intelligence, however, and they are incredibly simple minded creatures. However, due to their near complete lack of threats outside of when they sit on the rivers surface, and the sheer abundance of resources such as food available to them at their small size, it only benefits their species for such communication to develop, and so it was requested by the original creator and has yet to be lost.

Diet: Plankton, Various Flora (mostly leaves), Nectar

Size: 10 mm wingspan, 5 mm body

Environment: Tropical Jungles and the surface of their waterways

Other: Sticky Threads (and their use as netting), Abiity to glow at will, clear wings that beat so fast it creates illusion of invisibility, giant eyes, tough carapace, grasping arms, Water Strider legs

Origin: Antlion | Grouper | Giant Amphibious Centipede | Immortal Jellyfish  

Spending most of its life beneath the calm current of freshwater environments, this aquatic predator digs conical depressions in the riverbed and tunnels into the bottom, with its head facing outwards. To feed, it rapidly begins cycling water into its mouth and out its gills, creating a powerful localized whirlpool effect. When prey gets close enough, this creature will lazily snap its jaws shut, pumping potent venom into its prey or even swallowing smaller prey items whole.

Though they spend a lot of time feeding this way, when prey learns to avoid the area of their pits they are more than capable of extracting themselves from the soil and rapidly swimming around even venturing up onto and across the land in search of a new location for it to construct another pit. During this time, they act as a small to medium sized aquatic pursuit predator, but prefer to perform ambushes on land where they are less agile.

During late spring and early summer, individuals will mature into their final stages of life, each body segment of this creature metamorphosing into a complete, adult specimen, with the two formerly finned legs becoming wings and its main body losing armor and elongating in a strange form of asexual reproduction. After they complete their transformation, these adults fly around and mate with other adults, making sure not to mate with those who came from the same specimen as them through pheromones. During this time, they do not eat at all, and in fact lack a mouth.

Upon mating, the eggs are each placed individually in many different locations just under the surface of the soil near freshwater shores. These locations are also covered with a small amount of leaf litter. Upon hatching, the 3 inch larvae rapidly seek out a shallow submerged area to construct their first pit, using it to feed as they grow to their full larval size.

The parents, however, are not done here. No, upon completion of mating and placing the eggs, each adult will find a secure place, such as a nook in the rocks or roots just above the water line. They will then activate the dna stored deep inside their cells, reverting their bodies back into a genetically identical clone of their previous larval stage, but younger, as if they themselves had just newly hatched. Which they may has well have, and in fact exhibit the exact same behaviors.

Due to this incredible ability of age reversal, the population of these creatures is constantly spiking, and only those slain by other organisms will ever truly die.

Diet: All Fauna that it can fit into its mouth

Size: 3-6 feet in length as fully grown juveniles, 6 inches long with a 1 foot wingspan as an adult

Environment: Any Freshwater Environment

Other: Creates localized Whirlpools, potent venom, great swimmer and burrower, large jaws, can breathe above and below water, splits into multiple adults when mature, adults revert to more juveniles after breeding and laying eggs, pheromones

Origin: Horseshoe Crab | Whistling Kite | Velvet Worm | Texas Ironclad Beetle

These giant insects are the banes of woodlands everywhere. The larval forms of this insect are the best time to kill it, soft and vulnerable as they feed on the dead wood of fallen trees, as once they mature to adulthood they are nigh unkillable.

After their metamorphosis into adults, their hardened exoskeleton is not only fireproof, but nigh impenetrable. Their chimeric ancestors, the Texas ironclad beetle, only grew up to 2 cm long, and yet their shells had to have a drill taken to them in order to kill the creature. The Brannkrone is several magnitudes more difficult to kill, but luckily for the environment they spend most of their time as adults buried beneath the soil, having built up deposits of energy in their early adulthood before falling into a torpor like state, wrapping themselves in silk.

While in this state, they can live for years at a time, only needing to awake once or twice a decade at minimum in order to feed themselves. When they do rise, however, hell comes with them.

Awakened by the heat of wildfires in the woodland above, Brannkrone erupt from the ground in massive swarms, acting like massive, ravenous, flaming piranhas as the silk on their backs burns away and as they eat anything that comes into their path. On this warpath, they shoot lines of silk between trees or at escaping prey, entangling them and creating bridges for themselves until their silk burns away enough to release their wings, feathers covered in enough exoskeleton to armor and fireproof them. When they take off to the skies, the nightmare truly begins. Their wings, now also aflame, create the illusion of a crown of fire that their name comes from, and they dive bomb larger prey as a living firestorm, even the largest of predator and prey unable to do anything as they are gouged by the flaming insects.

After the wildfires burn out, the Brannkrone in the area spend the next few weeks scavenging among the ashes, slowly falling into a deeper and deeper exhaustion until they once again bury themselves beneath the ground and again enter torpor, allowing new growth and life to rise from the ashes until a thriving ecosystem once again forms overhead, unaware of the danger lying right beneath their feet.

Diet: Generalist Omnivore, anything that runs away from or dies in fires and they can rip up to fit in their mouths, as well as the inner bark of trees.

Size: 3 feet long, including tail, with a 6 foot wingspan when wings are unfolded.

Environment: All woodland environments, but prefer drier and more tropical ones

Other: Nigh Impenetrable exoskeleton, large retractable/hidden wings, lungs and gills, spiky tail, velvet worm silk, wall crawling, fire spreading tendencies, clawed limbs, fireproof armor/feathers, armored feathers, torpor

Origin: Sand Striker (unfortunately sometimes known as Bobbit Worm) | Frilled Lizard | Firefly | Necromantis Bat 

Undisputed rulers of the abyssal floor, Havraseri are long, worm like creatures covered in a tough, armor like hide, blacker than night that gains a rainbow shimmer in the light. While they are burrowers when young, and are still more than capable of doing such as adults, you will more often find adults swimming in vast packs along the seabed, stirring up silt and hunting for their next meal, whether that be the corpse of a massive Himmelgiganten that fell into the sea, the rare low-swimming Jerndrage, whose only fear is running into a pack exactly like one of these, or a herd of Kanonlems scavenging across the bottom of the ocean.

These massive herds are polygamous, though most of the time there will be a leading male who has first pick of mates, typically covered in scars from fighting other males. It’s also not uncommon to see smaller family groups or lone Havraseri, alongside the occasional bachelor herd, but most join the larger herds in order to take more and bigger prey. They communicate and attract mates not just through fighting, but also through flashing displays of beautiful light all over their neck frills, the insides of their large wings, and usinbelgiums that run down their sides. These flashing lights can also help them blend in to the rare Tareslange forest.

Truly giant and old Havraseri build giant burrows in the ocean sediment, collecting an impressive arrangement of trophies from past hunts and battles. These Havraseri tend to enter a torpor, only arising a few times a decade for a massive meal, but when they do even the largest herds can’t stop them from taking a meal if they so choose to. Havraseri usually die out from starvation or battle with other creatures, as they never die of old age and never truly stop growing.

Young are usually left within a pile of bones from a particularly successful hunt or sneakily left among the trophies in giant Havraseri nests, and upon hatching will eat some of said bones before either voluntarily swimming off to the surface or being scared off by the massive being they share a burrow with. This journey to the surface is one of the most dangerous parts of a Havraseri’s life, second only to the returning descent.

For those who make it to the ocean shallows, they dig themselves a small bit comfortable and well hidden burrow, using it as a point to launch out from in an ambush strike against prey that passes by, occasionally using their flashing lights as a hypnotic lure. They bite down on prey with their powerful jaws before ripping into them with their powerful internal pincers, injecting them with a belgiumtail of venom and numbing chemicals. Occasionally, the young will chase prey above the waves, but are incredibly clumsy on land and in the air, preferring to stick to the waters of their home.

Diet: Carnivore, Including a wide variety of fish, invertebrates, and other creatures when available

Size: Truly old specimens can be incredibly large, as this animal never stops growing, though the average for an adult is around 10-30 feet. Wingspans are usually about equal to their length, though they can vary from 0.75 to 1.5 times their length.

Environment: Shallows when young, Deep Oceans/Ocean Floor as adults

Other: Neck Frills that can flash green, large wings that can flash green, long body, lunging capability, swim with wings and unwieldily fly (not that they usually live in an area where they can fly), burrowing

Origin: Colossal Sauid | Pistol Shrimp | Pennichnus formosae (a Sand Striker like creature with metallic saliva) | Japanese Giant Spider Crab 

Kanonlems are large creatures looking similar in appearance to a cephalopod, with tougher skin covered in a layered exoskeletal armor that itself is coated in metallic saliva. They typically travel in herds, usually near trenches and the edges of continents where openings to the hydrothermal cave systems are abundant and many deep sea Tareslange forests grow. There, both adults and younger calf’s feed, using their massive, lanky, armored legs to crawl along the sea floor and feed off of the Tareslange and any fallen carrion or marine snow they come across, manipulating it with their tentacles or large legs.

The skin of this creature, in addition to being armored and metallic, has bumps, groves, and ridges that help the kanonlem blend into its surrounding, particularly in rocky areas. Kanonlem also have a tendency to stick more sessile organisms across their carapace, in order to better disguise themselves.

When truly massive herds of Havraseri come speeding through an area, many Kanonlems, particularly young ones, will rapidly try to create a burrow and disguise themselves among the silt, sitting perfectly still in order to avoid notice. Those who are too large, too slow, or otherwise unable or unwilling to hide gather in a massive defensive herd, with young at the center. Here, they use their namesake weapons, large, cannon like pincers that snap shut to create a massive sonic boom bubble, causing cavitation which then superheats the water around enemies and injures or outright kills them. This weapon is fired in salvos as the herd works together, and usually is enough to drive off predators. If this fails, however, they will charge towards opponents using their jet propulsion, their armored skin and spinning hooks being used to defend themselves and grapple with their opponents. Kanonlems will do their best to incapacitate or grievously injure their opponents if it comes down to this, focusing on protecting the lives of the younger Kanonlems even at the cost of their own lives.

Diet: Scavenging, Deep Sea Plants such as Tareslange, Opportunistic Carnivory.

Size: adults can grow up to 50 feet long/tall (not sure which it would be considered cus they both stand and swim), including their tentacles

Environment: Deep Sea, preferring to stick to walking along the sea floor but more than able of swimming if the situation calls for it

Other: Large, Armored legs, armored skin, 10 large tentacles with spinning hooks as suckers and giant pistol shrimp cannons on the end of em, squid like body shape, coat of metal due to coating/cleaning themselves with saliva, ability to burrow (as they do when young), slight natural camouflage and disguise tendencies

Origin: African Elephant | Opabinia | Thorny Devil | Cicada  

These massive desert beasts roam the sandy wastes, armored carapaces covered in jagged spines as their pale scales and exoskeletal armor helps to prevent them from overheating. On their face, there is a multitude of large, compound eyes, some of which are raised slightly off the face on short stalks. A long trunk extends off of the front of this creatures, just in front of the large ears and multitude of eyes, acting as an extended mouth with a large, claw like pincer/scooper jaw at the end. Two large tusks just out from either side of the gargantuan trunk, and the beast plods forward on four titanic legs, arthropodian appendages curled up against its stomach. Finally, a large, lizard like tail extends from behind the beast.

Gaining most of its nutrition and hydration from the various desert plants it consumes, the massive forms of Skallavkraft can bury themselves beneath the hot sands of the desert for months and years at a time, during which they grow themselves and their carapace as a thick, spiny shell against danger. After a seemingly random interval, Skallavkraft begin to awaken en masse, not all at once but steadily over a year or two. During this time, they begin to stir and molt their now overheavy carapace in favor of a tougher, larger, and spinier exoskeleton, leaving the husk of their former self behind. They now have sprouted a large pair of wings, though nowhere near large or strong enough to carry this beast into the skies, and their carapace is very vibrantly colored. During their time awake, they make loud noises with their vocal organs and a chittering sound with their wings in order to find a mate or another Skallavkraft in order to find food together.

After mating and storing up on food, individuals will slowly dull in color, eventually even losing their wings as they prepare to once again enter torpor. Females who are soon to bear child are the only ones who will stay awake long enough to give birth to their calves and make sure they eat enough food, and then will spend the first several torpor’s with their calves until they are full grown adults.

These creatures are fairly unbothered by any other creatures, the desert lacking predators anywhere near their sizes. Skallavkraft also never really die of old age, simply either dying of starvation, disease, or parasites. Other than those things, the latter two of which are rare so close to the dawn of life, simply spend longer and longer in each torpor, growing exponentially larger as they do so. Truly large Skallavkraft are a rare sight, and those that are seen are often mistaken at a distance as mirages or large rock formations.

Diet: All available Flora

Size: once 15-20 feet tall, 25-30 feet long, they are considered adults. This species never really stops growing, however

Environment: Hot Deserts

Other: Claw-trunk, many eyes, spines, torpor beneath the sands, exoskeleton shedding, singing/wing clicking

Origin: Yi Qi + Basilisk Lizard + Tragopan + Emperor Penguin

These bird-like creatures thrive in the icy corners of the world, hunting down fish and other pelagic and shore bound seafood. While they can feed on some flora, they need meat in their diet in order to properly thrive.

Covered in a thick, downy layer of feathers and equipped with a pair of dragon-like wings, they soar over icy waters looking for potential prey. Upon sighting movement, they dive into the water below, their watertight and waterproof feathers keeping them snug, warm, and not sopping wet, and the long sail running down their back allowing them to slice through the water like a knife.

In terms of ornamentation, both sexes have brightly colored, impressive crests on their face, curving forwards into an inflatable sack and backwards on either side of the head like a pair of draconic horns. Males use this to attract a mate, and both sexes use it for intimidation.

In addition to flight, this hunter can chase prey or flee from predators by running atop the waves, using the large webbing to create bubbles that they then run across, inherited from their basilisk lizard ancestors. While they can’t do this for long, it’s more than enough time to run away from predators from ice floe to ice floe without unnecessarily exposing themselves to cold winds and broadcasting their location to anything with eyes that can look towards the horizon.

When rearing young, family groups usually head south into subpolar regions where food is more abundant until the young mature, afterwards going their own separate ways as they once again venture into polar regions.

Diet: Fish, invertebrates, and the occasional bit of foraging

Size: 4-5 feet tall

Environment: Polar Icecaps/Polar-Subpolar Shores

Other: Bat like wings for flying and swimming, insulating blubber/watertight feathers, emperor penguin patterning, long flowing waterproof tail feathers, can run on water, raptor like claws, Tragopan ornamentation

Origin: Walrus + Marine Iguana + Amargasaurus + Archerfish 

These large, thickly padded behemoths hail from the icy waters of the poles, where they use their tusks to dig in the silt for small invertebrates they sense with their whiskers to then consume. They feed upon aquatic and semi-aquatic flora, using their long, extendable neck that they usually keep hidden in their other layers of blubber to reach flora that would be otherwise too far out of the water.

Built like living tanks, their tusks can also be used as defensive weaponry, and their thick blubber acts as a natural armor. If needed, they also can shoot down enemies just like a tank, using high power pressurized sprays of water from a special organ in their mouth to deal large amounts of damage to flying predators like the Snøfare whom would otherwise attack in groups to kill and feed off of their younglings.

Speaking of younglings, they often stay with their mothers in large herds formed of a male and his harem, as well as his offspring. Once they mature, the offspring swim off, females going off to join a males herd while the remaining males form bachelor herds until they can form a herd for themselves.

These herds spend a lot of time sitting on ice floes, sunning themselves and absorbing sunlight and warmth with their two large, pitch black sails that run down their back. If needed, these beasts are also able to move around on land, gripping ice or soil with four huge, clawed legs. However, they prefer to spend most of their time on the shoreline or in aquatic environments.

Diet: Small invertebrates, aquatic flora

Size: Adults can grow up to 50 feet long, but young are a much more modest size, at around 5-10 feet long.

Environment: Polar Waters

Other: Thick blubber, clawed legs, two sails on back, extendable neck, two heavy duty tusks, whiskers, ability to launch a spray of water at high speeds, defensive scales, live birth

Origin: Blue Whale + Tamisiocardidae + Three-Toed Sloth + Tardigrade 

Titans of the seas worldwide, Søkendegigant’s spend the early days of their lives as relatively small, arboreal herbivores in semi aquatic coastal trees, such as the Svermtre and Highpalm. Their thick carapace helps to defend them from the Svermtre’s protectors, and their incredibly slow movement, metabolism, and low scent output, and leaflike fans down their sides makes them very hard for the defenders to locate in the first place. Their tough immune system also makes them almost entirely resistant to the rash inducing poisons of the Svermtre and the drug-inducing effects of the Highpalms. They feed using their long claws and spiny mandibles, anomalocaris like mandibles to rip the leaves off of the trees.

After spending several years of their lives feeding off of these shore plants, the Søkendegigant will drop into the waters below, breathing through their gills as they crawl along the sea floor, feeding on aquatic sea floor. Here, they slowly move towards open waters, rapidly growing in size and dramatically changing shape, losing their hind legs entirely and folding their forelegs into pockets on their underside, for use only when approached by a major predator. Their mandibles and side flaps grow larger and larger in proportion to its body, with its mandibles being equal to at least thirty feet long and trailing beside its head, filter feeding from the surrounding waters.

They can live in any waters, from the crushing depths to the freezing oceans and warm tropical seas. They are unbothered by temperature, water PH, and theoretically could survive swimming through space by entering a torpor.

Often travelling in pods made of several familial groups, these animals are usually monogamous, and usually breed in tropical waters, where they set their floating eggs adrift on the current. These can be found floating in clumps all around the world, and those that survive hatch upon landing on a beach. The food reserves that this animal has naturally upon birth are used up as it crawls its way along the shore, allowing its tough carapace and hardy physique to allow it to survive while it instinctively searches for the coastal forests it will call home for the next several years.

Diet: Herbivore, Filter Feeding

Size: 100 feet long as adults, about 1.5 feet tall as juveniles

Environment: When Young, Arboreal in Coastal Woodlands, Predominantly in the Tropics but occasionally ranging all the way into temperate regions. As they mature and enter the waters, they slowly move to the shallow seas and then out into the open oceans of all temperature ranges and depths

Other: Tough immune system (allows them to eat Highpalm with no adverse affects), Armored Carapace, Large Claws, immense mandibles and fins, environment tolerance, floating eggs

Origin: Japanese Blood Grass + Sea Sapphire + Magnificent Anemone + Poison Dart Frog 

Starting their life as tiny little semiaquatic scuttling organisms, barely two inches long, with many scuttling legs and a powerful fin tail, these creatures are slightly armored and hard to see unless hit by light in just the right way, where they stand out like a rainbow beacon. They carefully scuttle between Lureteppe, sucking up detritus and feeding off of Tareslange leaves until they have stored enough energy to begin their transformation into adult Fantomblads

Those few that make it this far find a place to settle down, whether in the swampy caves covered only in a small layer of water or the busy waters of the aquatic caves, and here they slowly grow into a deadly sessile predator. They passively gain a small amount of energy from symbiotic algae all over their bodies, but most of their sustenance comes from their own natural photosynthesis and occasionally from them using their razor sharp blades of nigh-invisible death to slice into prey. Their slow moving tentacles are almost invisible unless hit at a very particular angle, and their constant, slow movement gives them an ethereal look of a handful of minor reflections that lures in smaller prey items to their doom, poisoning and slashing at them as they are hypnotized by the plants beauty

In the event that something does try to eat them, they are not only incredibly sharp but also incredibly tough and poisonous, making it the rare beast that can try to eat them, and an even rarer one which can succeed and walk away unscathed.

Diet: Herbivore and Scavenger as larvae, Omnivore and Small Scale Producer as adult

Size: Larva around 2 inches long, Individual plants are about 3 feet wide with 2 foot tall blade-tentacle-leaves

Environment: Hydrothermal Caves (Above and Below Water)

Other: Stinging Blade Tentacles, almost invisible unless light hits just right (then many sparkling colors), deadly poisonous as adults, incredibly sharp, sessile and slow moving, symbiotic photosynthetic algae, can crawl and is amphibious as larvae

Origin: Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko + Devil’s Fingers + Praying Mantis + Trapdoor Spider

Fryktelig are the small scavengers of this world, forming huge colonies similar to ants and working together to be a formidable force to be reckoned with.

Two stages of this life form exist. The first is a fungal stage, which forms as a large white bubble that red, finger like protrusions emerge from when they mature and take root. This form is a saprotroph, feeding off of dead or dying plant and animal matter. It can connect its roots with nearby members of its species, linking together to share information and resources. It is rare, but with enough time, if there is a scarcity of food or danger to its being, this first stage can develop long, mantis like legs and then get up and walk away to a new location.

Occasionally, the spore eggs of the second stage can be found lining the arms, or fingers, of the first stage, where they then fall off or are collected by the second stage. In the second stage, which hatches out of the spore eggs of the first stage, they come into the world looking like small, lizard like creatures with the hind feet of a gecko, small arthropodian limbs lining their abdomen, and two large, raptorial forelimbs that they use for striking and walking around by planting the sharp, scythe like end in the ground, similar to how a gorilla walks on its knuckles.

This second stage also is covered in a rock or plant like camouflage, with a thick mat of small devils fingers lining its back like a spiky mane or row of spines. They form sprawling hives near the base of the adult stages, hidden beneath earthen trapdoors, and can share information and food resources with them in necessary. Injured second stages are occasionally wrapped in silk and mobile, subsurface hyphae in order to accelerate their healing process.

The second stage is significantly more active than the first stage, actively going out to hunt or scavenge for food in a similar way to ants. If the first stage Fryktelig are ever in danger from some sort of grazing herbivore, these creatures will also swarm this being, and try their belgiumedest to take it down. If an event happens where the first stage needs to move, hives will often move with them, and may even end up joining with another fungal grove and hive in the area, as colonies don’t make distinctions between one another and will actually actively help one another.

When the second stage dies, it’s body acts as fertilizer for the spores stored deep inside it, objects made early in life after maturing as a second stage through mating and the joining of spores from the fungal parents of each second stage Fryktelig. This also makes every Fryktelig hermaphroditic, so that every second stage sprouts at least one first stage upon death.

Diet: Omnivore / Saprotroph

Size: 8 inches long second stage, first stage constantly grows based on food availability.

Environment: Any terrestrial environment excluding polar areas, though they are much more common the warmer the environment, being most common in hot deserts and mesas.

Other: Two stages, Red finger or tentacle like fungal arms, raptorial forelegs, small arthropodian limbs, reptilian hind legs, plant or rock like skin camouflage, trapdoor burrows, giant nests/hives, silk production, fungal mane, hermaphrodites

Origin: Alvinocardid Shrimp + Tasseled Wobbegong + Ghost Flower + Cave Caiman 

A large, crocodilian chimera, this beast lays in wait all over the floors the hydrothermal caves, carpeting the floors of the swamp caves as their predominant ‘plant’ and being not uncommon undergrowth in cave-dwelling Tareslange forests. They are the predominant light in those swampy areas, their backs covered in a thick carpet of glowing ghost plants.

Spending most of their lives in the same location after hatching from their eggs and finding a spot to lay down, they spend most of their time passively feeding off of the organic matter produced by their microfungal symbionts. They’ll lazily snap or lunge at anything that registers to their heat sense or brushes by their antennae, but only will ever do so half heartedly and don’t often give chase, only ever really moving or shifting around to uproot a misbehaving Fantomblad or to shove other Lureteppe aside in order to have room to grow.

Mating predominantly occurs between neighbors, with young wandering far enough away that it usually doesn’t become a problem for future generations. Due to having no real predators, the Lureteppe lives a mostly carefree life, vibing the day away.

Diet: Producer, Detrivore, Scavenger, Carnivore

Size: 6 feet long as adult, no real maximum size (grow to fit available space)

Environment: Hydrothermal Caves (above and below water)

Other: Symbiosis with microfungal chemosynthesizers in their gills, glowing carpet of ghost plants on back, flora-like camouflage and patterning all across skin surface, bright red eyes, Heat Vision, perfect stillness, gills and lungs, powerful swimming tail good for lunging

Origin: Panellus Stipticus (Bright Green Glowing Shelf Fungus) + Giant Kelp + Dragon Snake + Leafy Sea Dragon 

Long and sinuous when young, juvenile Tareslange are relatively active ambush and pursuit predators, chasing down small prey throughout forest of their adult counterparts. All across their bodies, fins of leaflike protrusions grow, and sometimes juveniles will even curl up on a leaf of an adult to ‘sun’ themselves and perform some minor photosynthesis.

When approaching adulthood, Tareslange will go and find another near-adult to mate with, their hermaphroditic nature allowing them both to begin to carry the seed-eggs of the other.

They then go off on their own separate journeys, searching for an area with plenty of space and little competition for them to take root. Once they find an area that works for them, they bite down on the soil and their metamorphosis begins. Their jaws slowly transform into a large, root like system, and their body elongates dramatically, their leaf like protrusions increasing in size and becoming proper, glowing green leaves. Shelves of bright green fungus like material also sprout up and down their scaly stems like tiny little shelves, and small bubbles form on short little stems all up and down the main trunk of this plant and underneath its giant leaves.

This now massive pseudo plant can live for a very, very long time, steadily growing with each passing year. It gains its energy through photosynthesis, using the other plants as its light sources in the darkness of the deep sea. However, due to this not being a video game with an infinite energy glitch, it’s also a saprotroph, feeding off of the detritus and dead bodies of past organisms.

Periodically, around once every two or three years or so, some of the bubbles will detach from the main stem and increase in weight, dropping among the pseudo branches of the plant and the aquatic leaf litter. These will eventually hatch into new Tareslange, who repeat the cycle all over again, endlessly increasing the spread of the deep sea glowing forests.

Diet: Carnivore (Fantomblad Larvae and other small creatures) as juvenile, producer and saprotroph as adult

Size: 2 feet long as juvenile, up to 215 feet long as adult

Environment: Hydrothermal Caves (Underwater), Deep Ocean relatively near caves

Other: Black scaled body/stem, leaf-like glowing protrusions as juvenile as lure and camouflage, other leaf like camouflage, can unhinge jaw as juvenile, huge glowing leaves as adult with bubble pods (also eggs), jaw-roots as adult

Origin: Sungazer Lizard + Electric Ray + Portuguese Man-o-war + Marella

This glowing prince of the stars lives its life almost as far away from the stars as you can be, deep in the depths of the world in a series of hydrothermal caves booming with life. Its life usually begins in a series of cavernous swamps, rife with danger and an eerie beauty. Here, it feeds on many life forms as it grows in its spiky, translucent armor and crown of horns, using blasts of hydrogen to shoot itself upwards to then fly around on its wide flaps and hydrogen sacks.

Eventually, it will slowly grow too large for these caves, and leave in search of bigger caverns, usually the aquatic ones. Here is where most of this species spend the rest of its life, one of the few undisputed rulers of the caves, with no other predatory organisms growing as large as they do, or as capable of defending themselves with their spiny armor, deadly poison, and killer lightning bolts.

Occasionally, however, a stjerneprins will leave the domain of its ancestors, usually by mistake, and take to the deep ocean waters. Here, danger is all around, and yet there is so much more space to grow and food to be found. Even more rarely, these creatures will find their way to the surface, flying their way across the sky as the starlight hits them just right to activate their bioluminescence, appearing as a spectral entity from the beyond. They then will vanish with the rising sun, returning to the depths to avoid the blinding light of day.

Diet: Omnivore, predominantly small invertebrates and vertebrates as well as deep aquatic flora (such as the Tareslange)

Size: Averaging around 10 feet, it is not uncommon to find individuals of up to 30 feet, and some truly wondrous specimen can grow as large as 100 feet long

Environment: Hydrothermal Caverns, Occasionally spotted in oceans or skies, but that’s not their natural environments

Other: Internal Air Sack full of Hydrogen producing symbiotic bacteria, powerful electric shock, crown of horns, translucent/bioluminescent, tough spine like scales, large fins/flaps, gills and lungs, absorbs venom and poison to add to own sting

Origin: Leafbug + Bush Viper + Beaver + Stellar’s Sea Cow

Born to family communities hidden deep within coastal forests, young Ungtarbeid are the workforce of their ‘villages’, using their rather mobile appendages to construct their cities of wood and mud. Due to their tough, spiny armor and how little they consume their host plants, they are typically left alone by Svermtre swarmlings, and their leaf like camouflage or potent venom can help them hide or ward away most of the other small to mid-sized creatures.

If a truly large predator appears, juvenile Ungtarbeid will jump into the waters, winding their serpentine bodies behind the adults and slapping their large tails on the water to alert other of danger. Here, the adults will bring their bulk to bear, proving why the juveniles construct homes to include the adults as the massive animals easily scare off all but the largest of predators.

Young Ungtarbeids look like long Bush Vipers, with many smaller teeth that grow similarly to beaver teeth and spiny scales. They also have four limbs with webbed feet, and a flap on their tail can be unfolded to allow them to slap at the water if necessary.

Adults, on the other hand, are 30 foot long wrecking machines, with the bulk of a Stellars sea cow backed by spiny armor and sharp, venemous fangs. They also have beaver like tails like the juveniles, though they rarely use them, and are surprisingly quick at striking at foes. They spend most of their time grazing or sleeping, and have turned their previous legs into a large pair of foreflippers and a small, vestigal pair of hindflippers. They also have grown many whiskers on their face to detect small animals creeping around while they graze, which they occasionally snack on.

Diet: When young, predominantly carnivore, with some omnivory. When adult, predominantly herbivore, with some opportunistic omnivory

Size: Up to 5 feet long as juveniles, with adults growing up to 30 feet long

Environment: Tropical aquatic environments, particularly Svermtre Forests due to their largely submerged nature with a decent amount of above water substrate. Young can sometimes venture further inland, and adults can venture out into the shallow seas in search of more abundant food

Other: Structure building when young, sharp scales and fangs, Leaf like camouflage, Venemous Bite, lightning fast reflexes, tank like bulk as adult, fins instead of legs as adult

Origin: Carnotaurus | Muskox | Cat 

• Carnotaurus

  • bipedality

  • horns (?)

  • tail

  • leg musculature

• Muskox

  • long fur, protecting from coldness

  • viviparity

• Cat

  • eye placement

  • retractable claws

  • longer front legs (would make Carnotaurus’ arms longer)

  • parent instincts

  • milk

It would live in colder areas, more likely southern, feeding on anything it finds and is edible (omnivorous), or preying on creatures of size up to its own (carnivorous).

Reaching averagely 2 meters in height, it would reproduce sexually, and after gestation period of 10 months, it would give birth to 0.5 meter tall juvenile, which it would take care of for 8 months feeding it with its milk for the first 3 months (after 3 months juveniles feed on what adult individual feeds on), after which it leaves the now averagely 1.75 meters tall offspring on its own.

Origin: Poison Dart Frog  | Mountain Goat  | Fuite Bat | Mayfly  

Poison Dart Frog:
1-Head
2-Poison skin

Mountain Goat:
1-Climbing Legs
2-Thick Fur, to protect against the elements.
3-Goat body

Bat
1-Large Ears for echolocation
2-Large Wings for flight
3-Retractable claws

Mayfly
1-1 day lifespan

The North Wind lives in the cold, mountainous north. Here they swoop down and grapple prey with their large claws, flying high up into the air and then dropping their prey, killing them instantly. They then lay their eggs in their prey’s blood. After a few hours, they die, and their young hatch and feed on the corpses of the creatures. They then grow exponentially, until reaching the size of a cow, when the the cycle repeats. 

Origin: Dinoponera  | Moss  | Dragonfly  | Axolotl

 1# Dinoponera (Ant):
a) Social Structure
b) Body Plan
c) Stinger + Venom
d) Legs

2# Moss:
a) Photosynthesis
b) Cellulose Cell Wall + Armour
c) Wide Climate/Condition Tolerance

3# Dragonfly:
a) Wings
b) Dragonfly Compound Eye
c) Jaws

4# Axolotl:
a) Regeneration
b) Gills

Plicatilis Vulgaris is a highly generalist carnivore-photosynthesizing chimera, being able to live both abovewater and underwater (in freshwater areas) aswell as being able to fly, making it able to live in much of the “Parapingronsia” supercontinent. It’s roughly 5 centimetre in length when fully grown. Thanks to it’s moss-derived photosynthesizing tissue, it can supplement itself with a large amount of sugar/energy. It lives in colonies of 50-100 individuals, which fight for the role of a reproducer. It’s generally able to eat most organic things that aren’t plants. 

Origin: Hydra  | Sarcosuchus  | Taipan 

1# Hydra:
a) Regeneration abilities
b) Many tentacles
c) Nematocysts

2# Sarcosuchus:
a) General Body Plan + Tail
b) Strong Jaws at end of the tentacles
c) Skin (Scales)
d) Eyes
e) Legs

3# Taipan 1:
a) Strong Venom
b) Tongue Smell Sense

Fabula Inmortalis is a large carnivorous animal living in subtropical and tropical areas. It’s roughly 6 meters long when fully grown and prefers wet biomes such as swamps, wetlands and rivers. It has 7 tentacles at end of whose are crocodile-like heads with a strong bite force. It’s also extremely venomous, with any bite of it being able to paralyze in mere seconds. The chimera has also extremely good regeneration abilities, being able to regenerate entire tentacles. Inside it’s jaws are nematocysts that also paralyze it’s prey.

Origin: Rüppell’s vulture  | Quetzalcoatlus | Cuttlefish | New Caledonian crow

1# Rüppell’s vulture:
a) General Body Plan
b) High Altitude survival adaptations
c) Sight (Eyes)
d) Feathers
e) Claws

2# Quetzalcoatlus:
a) Body Plan
b) Larger wings for better Gliding
c) Large Beak

3# Cuttlefish:
a) Rapid Color Changing / Stunning

4# New Caledonian crow:
a) Brain (Intelligence)

DESCRIPTION

Volans Terrent is a large bird-of-prey-like chimera inhabiting many areas of the world. It’s roughly 1 meter tall and long, with a wingspam of around 4 meters. It has great eyes that allow it to see many details even up from 10 kilometers up in the atmosphere. It has fearsome beak and claws, which allow it to easily tear apart prey or carrion, especially if the prey has been stunned by rapid colour changing before. It’s also very intelligent thanks to NCC bits inside of it.

Origin: Hare  | Brown falcon | Bombardier Beetle   | Giant Pasific Octopus

 1# Hare:
a) Hearing (Ears)
b) Jumping Legs
c) Ability to eat plant-matter (Rabbit-like Teeth)
d) Rapid Reproducer
e) Temperate Zone Survival
f) Digging

2# Falcon:
a) Wings + Flying Styles
b) Beak
c) Claws on Feet/Legs
d) Feathers
e) Falcon Eyes
f) Ability to eat Animals-matter

3# Bombardier Beetle:
a) Chemical Spray
b) Legs (other than jumping legs)

4# Octopus:
a) Color Changing
b) Brain Intelligence

Auritus Unfamiliaris is a very strange animal which inhabits the temperate zones of the world of Chimarion. It can eat both meat and plant-matter, however when it comes to the plant matter it mostly eats fruits and nuts. The animal preys like a falcon, skydiving, however it releases a hot chemical like the Bombardier Beetle to burn it’s prey and changes it’s colors to be hard-to-see to it’s prey. It’s quite intelligent and the place it calls home is underground tunnel system it digs, where it moves by it’s 2 posterior hare-like legs and 4 more frontal beetle-like legs. It’s rought 65 cm long and tall when fully grown.

Origin: Baboon | Mole | Crocodile | Ant

 1# Baboon :
a) General Body Shape and Limbs
b) Teeth
c) Intelligence

2# Mole:
a) Digging claws at end of arms and legs
b) Smell Sense
c) Underground Survival Abilities

3# Crocodile:
a) Green, Hard Scales
b) Sight Sense
c) Strong Jaws
d) Eggs

4# Ant:
a) Social Structure
b) More Underground Survival Skills

Fodiens Viridis is a strange underground-living primate-like species. It lives in eusocial colonies, where one or many Queen rapidly produces many eggs, from which babies hatch. The species is up to a meter in height, with the queen being some 4-ish meters long. It’s skin is green and it’s head looks like something inbetween of a baboon’s head and a crocodile’s head. On ends od it’s hands and feet are mole-like claws that are perfect for digging. It’s also quite intelligent.

Origin: Sugarcane  | Sea sponge  | Blainville’s beaked whale  | Unisexual ambystoma salamander 

#1 sugarcane
a: chloroplasts and chloroplast concentration
b: cellulose
c: leaf structure, but adapted to using blood with cells in it
d: the production chains for all necessary nutrients

#2: sea sponge
a: cell de-specialization
b: motile body cells
c: phagocytes lining the entirety of the digestive tract
d: regenerative capabilities
e: reproduction via budding

#3: blainville’s beaked whale
a: bone density of 86.7%
b: cancer resistance
c: teeth
d: ribs(why do amphibians not have ribs???)
e: electroreceptors
f: thick skin(but only in saltwater and air)
g: a set of lungs
h: 4 chambered heart

#4: unisexual ambystoma salamander
a: kleptogenesis
b: skeleton
c: blood
d: regeneration of complex systems
e: gills, but with circulation control
f: another set of lungs
g: lungs are able to breathe air and water without problems
h: the rest of the body plan

description: informem soledentis is an amphibious, solitary carnivore and filter feeder that does not respirate through its skin unless in fresh water, allowing it to survive in any saltiness of water as long as it can fill its lungs with air, or ,if the salt content of the water is below 1%, water. it has two sets of lungs when mature or 2 sets of gills and one set of lungs as an eft, with one set of gills external and the other internal, and the external one able to cut its circulation down or off if the water or air is toxic. it has a weak shapeshifting ability and hundreds of leaves up to 1 cm in length and 1 mm in width coating its body, with the outer cells of the leaves using cellulose to protect the leaves from damage, and all the leaves have the veins, arteries, and capillaries arranged to make sure none of the cells start doing photorespiration by taking all the oxygen out of them before it gets too concentrated.

unlike most amphibians, informem soledentis has ribs to protect its organs, and its bones use a combination of the normal bone materials and a lot of cellulose fibers to have high compressive and tensile strength, making the bones extremely hard to break, especially with something small enough to actually grab them.

all through its digestive tract informem soledentis has cells to eat food particles and/or bacteria, with enough space between them to allow their native gut bacteria to not go extinct, but little enough space between them that instead of being able to become overpopulated the bacteria get farmed.

informem soledentis reproduces through parthenogenesis, sexual reproduction with another species of amphibian, or budding, with parthenogenesis and sexual reproduction occuring in their normal area, and budding happening in pores in the large intestine, through which mature members of this species produce hundreds of offspring.

when produced through budding informem soledentis will begin their life cycle by being pushed out of the pores they develop in, at which point they are roughly spherical in shape and have several root hair like structures they use to anchor themselves to their mother’s fecal matter so they can exit their intestines. depending on where they are excreted they will either develop a skin, gill hairs, and structures specialized for maximizing salt removed from their cytoplasm while minimizing water loss, or get wrinkly to maximize surface area to photosynthesize and filter feed with. in either state it will grow with a target size of 1 cm, at which point it will start differentiating its internal cells and developing into a juvenile informem soledentis specimen. this is their primary method of reproduction due to there not being that many salamander species’ around

Origin: towhee | bombardier beetle | auxenochlorella pyrenoidosa | fruit bat 

1: towhee
a: feathers
b: general body plan

2: bombardier beetle
a: hydrogen peroxide glands
b: reaction chamber
c: exoskeleton
d: 6 limbs
e: an extra pair of wings, but mostly used as leaves or steering appendages

3: auxenochlorella pyrenoidosa
a: the whole thing as an endosymbiont in all the skin/exoskeleton, feather, sclera, and egg cells cause this thing’s goin’ oxygen free places at some point.

4: fruit bat
a: hindlegs and forelegs can act as wings due to a skin connecting them to the main body/exoskeleton. these wing membranes get scales and bloodflow control instead of an exoskeleton due to high mobility requirement

description:
the rocket sparrow is a sparrow with a chitinous, nerve ending free combustion chamber (with more than trace amounts of silver as a catalyst) that has a nozzle coming out of it and going past the cloaca to prevent the bird getting burned by its own flames. said combustion chamber is fed by a bladder lined with epidermal tissue that constantly has highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide put in it by a few dozen hydrogen peroxide glands. this bladder uses a few one way valves to ensure the explosion doesn’t go backwards.

due to being able to go up where the air is thinner than a bird should be able to breathe, rocket sparrows have the ability to close off their nostrils so they can’t have any gas enter or escape them, an exoskeleton under their feathers that only grows in after reaching maturity to keep in pressure and prevent them from exploding under too little pressure because of holding their breath, bloodflow in the hairs of their feathers that doesn’t get cut off in the final set of feathers (it’s the final set because it’s the one after the last they shed) to allow their currently eukaryotic chloroplasts to have as much surface area to photosynthesize as possible, speaking of which, they have green eyes from their endosymbiotic chlorella having enough light to survive in the scleral and iris cells and not impeding sight while there

the first step of the female ghost pepper birbs choosing a mate is finding a group of male jacks, the second step is seeing how high all of them can fly, with all but the top three being disqualified from further stages of the competition. the third stage is having them all fight to see who is the strongest, with the winner being the one the female jack chooses. this means that over time the ghost pepper birbs will adapt to fly higher and higher until or past them exiting the mesosphere before they evolve proper rocket fuel.

all jacks have 4 pairs of wings, two of which are used for walking, one of which is primarily composed of chitin and is mainly used for photosynthesis, and the last of which is only used for flying, but does aid in photosynthesis, and can fold down against the body to protect the thinner insect wings underneath them

while jet beetles are resistant to low pressures, they cannot yet withstand a vacuum as their eyes are not covered by something hard and clear, and thus would depressurize in a vacuum, especially if the jack is holding its breath

Origin: titanoboa | hammerhead worm  | giant pacific octopus  | american lobster 

common Names: cavedigger worm, tunneler snake.

scientific name: antrudiens anguis 

#1: titanoboa
a: size
b: body
c: blood
d: scales
e: bones
f: stomach acid
g: stomach lining, but make it line the whole body

#2: hammerhead worm
a: toxicity, but keep it internal
b: regenerative abilities
c: egg size
d: tube heart, but not for moving blood.

#3: giant pacific octopus
a: the brains
b: 8 tentacles around the mouth
c: eyes

#4: american lobster
a: lifespan: until killed by something
b: growth abilities
c: claws(1 at the end of each tentacle)
d: exoskeleton, but instead of shedding, the protective lining is simply moved to under the exoskeleton so it gets dissolved
e: book gills, but they’re muscularized, and also have the stomach lining coating the inside

description:
the cavedigger worm is a giant snake that digests its prey externally by producing its stomach acid outside its body. due to this, it has no stomach, and instead has the start of its small intestine immediately after the end of its mouth, which has a filter so no solids can get past said opening. because of the lack of expansion of the digestive tube the octopus brain didn’t need to be moved into the skull, and thus stays a torus around the ‘esophagus’.

tunneler snakes have an extremely thick exoskeleton that easily breaks down in the presence of a strong acid. “but how do they have an exoskeleton if they’re constantly swimming in their own stomach acid?” you may ask? well the answer to that is that their stomach lining has been moved to every inch of surface area that touches their acid! their exoskeletons are weak to acids so that they don’t die early due to not being able to shed when they need to! since they’re constantly swimming in an acid that’s meant to digest everything but the stomach it’s in the body lining is simply moved under the exoskeleton when it’s time to shed!

cavedigger worms dig by scraping the rock with their claws to get rid of everything that their stomach acid doesn’t digest. they eat pretty much any subterranean animal, including their own young if they don’t have their body lining by the time they’re born; and they occasionally surface and create pits that anything that falls into it will not only fall several tens of feet, but get digested before they even see the thing that’ll slurp up their nutrients.

due to constantly being submerged in their own acid, but still having a need to occasionally dig up for air, tunneler snakes have both the lungs of a titanoboa, and the gills of an ancient lobster. however, the lungs are completely evacuated and filled with mucous before being closed when preparing to dig down, and the gills simply close when exiting the acid they secrete. it is important to note that cavedigger gills use the same lining that the rest of their body does, but thinner to balance upkeep cost and gas transfer

cavediggers obtain water by digging up when they get dehydrated and digging back down to re-enter their acid pool, and waiting for rain while digging in circles to make a lair area bedded with the finest gravel they can make. they typically reproduce by ripping off the claws of 4 of their tentacles while their acid is at its lowest concentration and leaving it partially submerged in their acid. this generally causes the claw, which no longer gets blood flow, to panik and tell its stem cells to start making new, tiny cavediggers instead of regrowing a huge tunneler snake, while the tunneler snake that ripped off its claws just grow the claws back. ofcourse, this is only their main method of reproduction, as they typically do not encounter eachother, but when they do, they use the method that produces genetically distinct offspring, and hundreds, if not thousands or even millions of eggs are produced, of which around 1-10% survive to adulthood, with around 70% surviving the acid they’re born in, but not eachother.

cavediggers reach reproductive maturity at around 1 year, while being able to live until they simply get so big they cook themselves from the inside out because of being so big. when this happens the stem cells that survive turn into young worms and eat the parts that are sufficiently cold

the cavedigger digestive system is an interesting one, they digest their prey outside their body, allowing them to breathe in its nutrients with their gills as a consequence of taking oxygen out of their acid, but primarily so they can gulp it down with their mouth directly connected to their small intestine, which, instead of using peristaltic muscles to move the fluid, uses several single chambered hearts to move the nutrient rich acid through the digestive tract where it becomes depleted of nutrients, before exiting through the cloaca as little but things the cavedigger can’t digest, methane, hydrogen sulfide, water, and heavy metals. despite not having a stomach, the cavedigger worm has several areas of its small intestine that use folds to be able to stretch into a spheroid when full as adaptations to getting the nutrients it digests externally without being able to eat solids.

Origin: leaf sheep  | yellow spotted salamander  | olm | true crab

#1: leaf sheep
a: leaves
b: plant mouth
c: plastid stealing cells

#2: yellow spotted salamander
a: legs and head
b: cells capable of allowing chloroplasts to reproduce
c: blood
d: high melanin concentration
e: meat mouth
f: lungs
g: eyes
h: leg structure

#3: olm
a: retention of gills into adulthood
b: regenerative capabilities
c: central body
d: hearing
e: sense of smell
f: electroreception
g: lateral line system

#4: true crab
a: ten legs
b: exoskeleton
c: hemocyanin
d: antennae

description:
the leaf dragon is a very long, mostly aquatic salamander that covers itself in leaves with thin chitin walls as an eft for both protection and energy, as most things looking to eat the leaves will be disinterested in eating an eel with legs, and most things that eat meat will be disinterested in the leaves. as an adult it covers itself in an extremely segmented version of a crab’s exoskeleton that allows it to wiggle to propel itself underwater while still remaining protected from predators.
the exoskeleton is only present in adults and once it grows in a leaf dragon will stop growing until it gets removed. due to the presence of leaves the exoskeleton grows in with several hundred to a few thousand small holes in it to not cut off circulation to the leaves, which get their ‘stem’ extended so the leaf is starting just above the surface of the exoskeleton. despite their name, the leaves aren’t the only area these decapedal eel salamanders use to photosynthesize, as photosynthesis is also carried out in the dermis and cuticle.

leaf dragons do not start their lives having chloroplasts, instead they are born as black or dark gray, chloroplast-free, efts and must eat plants with the mouth from their leaf sheep component to get any form of plastid, though this does mean they could get any type of plastid consumed with the slug mouth and adapt to a mixotrophic niche centered around the kind of autotrophy said plastid uses, and meat but it would take several generations and the existence of the plastid for this to work.

leaf dragon efts typically gain chloroplasts that can reproduce within their cells after around a week of living. after they gain said chloroplasts they replicate them in white blood cells modified to have no purpose but replicating their chloroplasts so they can be eaten by the leaf, skin, and stem cells where the chloroplasts will stay until the salamander dies, as the skin cells typically regenerate before the cuticle does, due to the cuticle growing from the skin

adult leaf dragons typically live in freshwater with lots of light and lots of prey. with their advanced senses of smell and hearing, eyes, lateral line system, electroreception, and camouflage, they have the stuff to be an apex predator, however, as they are still the size of an above average olm, they have many things that eat them.

leaf dragons typically have 10 legs, 1 set of lungs, and 3 pair of gills, one pair of eyes, purple blood, two antennae, green, black, greenish gray, or dark green skin and gills; however they can occasionally have more than ten legs, though generally due to getting one of the latter segments cut or torn off and causing an error in the regeneration process. leaf dragons with more than ten legs typically don’t produce offspring with more than 10 legs, but their offspring are significantly more likely to grow more legs than they lost when part of their lower torso with legs is cut off .

Origin: yellow spotted salamander | Fire ants | spongia officinalis  | potato 

#1: yellow spotted salamander
a: chloroplasts
b: body
c: blood
d: regenerative abilities
e: bone tissue

#2: red fire ant
a: venom
b: castes
c: eusociality
d: exoskeleton
e: wings in young queens
f: reproductive material storage organ, to allow the salamants to not become naked mole rats

#3: spongia officinalis
a: motile cells
b: reproduction by budding
c: filter feeding cells
d: cell re-specialization
e: cancer resistance

#4: potato
a: plant caste
b: production of all necessary nutrients in plant caste
c: nutrient storage and reproduction organ
d: nightshade poison
e: ability to use cellulose and make starch
f: c, but repurposed for being eaten by the salamants

description:

the mixotrophic salamant is a species of salamander that uses an exoskeleton made from chitin, cellulose, and bone to defend itself, and is eusocial, having four castes. in order of largest to smallest: plant, queen, soldier, and worker. the plant caste ranges from 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide to 2 feet tall and taking up an entire field. the queen caste is 4 times larger than the warrior caste, which is 2 times larger than the worker caste. a young queen will typically have a pair of wings, low body mass, and large, dark green wings, to maximize flight time and allow her to fly to other salamant colonies to collect gametes before starting her own colony.

upon starting a new colony a queen salamant will lay 5 to 18 cellulose, calcium carbonate, and chitin walled spherical cells, which, after 1-2 days will sprout and start photosynthesizing, and after 2-3 weeks be a fully grown meat potato plant, which produces two separate types of potato in two separate areas, and has up to 3 hearts per plant, excluding the potatoes. the two kinds of potato it makes are: A: a meat potato rich with everything a salamant needs, and B: a regular potato, but with blood and a very thick cuticle made of cellulose, chitin, and bone. typically the plant potatoes have a single nerve cluster each, which they use to keep track of the seasons with their photoreceptors and start being really toxic when the parts that aren’t made to be eaten get nommed on, as well as to direct the ‘hyphae’ that are mostly used to allow shelled potatoes to know when the season has become spring so they can sprout. every member of the plant caste produces at least 5 potatoes, and they all stay connected by the roots until separated, meaning a big enough field of them could be far smarter than a human, but think far slower due to a fully decentralized nervous system

all castes of salamants have venom consisting of nightshade poison and fire ant venom. in most castes it’s injected with the mandibles or a stinger, but in the plant caste it’s injected with small, hollow spikes of chitin resembling sharpened ant legs.

salamants have minor shapeshifting abilities and cell re-specialization, which means while they can’t move hard tissue cells with their own cytoskeleton, they can make them not hard tissue cells and then move them, and they can move all their soft tissue cells around their body, which heavily supplements their regeneration ability, allowing a small enough piece of salamant with no circulation(it has to be thinner that 1mm) to grow into a whole salamant if not eaten, but not allowing a salamant with no heart to grow its heart back due to a need for blood circulation and no blood circulating. any other organ but the parts of the brain that make the heart beat can be regenerated as long as they’re kept wet while doing so, as salamants have a strong immune system due to having cells that eat any intruders lining their blood vessels.

salamants can replace their food intake with using as much of their surface area as possible to eat things smaller than their cells, but they typically can’t last long doing this, as they still get slightly less energy than they use in most waters, algae blooms excluded, meaning that eventually they will have to find prey or meat potatoes to eat if they want to continue surviving.

if left un eaten long enough the plant caste’s meat potatoes will expand to 5 times their original size with a hollowed out area in the center full of egg yolk and grow a cuticle made of the same stuff as the underground ones, before sending a single nucleus into the yolk so it may grow into a member of the queen caste. this is only done to make sure that a colony doesn’t die out even if all the salamants are dead but the salaplants are alive.

Origin: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii  | hammerhead worm  | Elysia chlorotica  | Portuguese man o’ war

#1: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
a: hydrogenic photosynthesis in absence of sulfur
b: chloroplasts
c: eyespots

#2: hammerhead worm
a: regeneration abilities
b: tetrodotoxin, but not on the outside.
c: mouth and intestines
d: hearts

#3: Elysia chlorotica
a: leaf zooid
b: algae eating zooid on the ends of tentacles
c: locomotion appendage
d: chlorocruorin
e: hemolymph

#1: Portuguese man o’ war
a: zooids
b: pneumatophore
c: gastrozooid
d: tentacular palpon
e: gonodendron
f: body plan

description: the parathesian warship is a fully aquatic, mixotrophic animal that uses many single chambered hearts to move around chlorocruorin bearing blood within and between zooids. it uses hydrogenic photosynthesis to fill its pneumatophore with hydrogen gas, while using oxygenic photosynthesis in its leaf zooids to allow survival in anoxic waters and give more energy. as a way to keep in hydrogen gas without making explosions pop the pneumatophore, the parathesian warship takes every molecule of oxygen that hits the inner membrane of the pneumatophore out while actively putting hydrogen and helium gas in the pneumatophore.

parathesian warships are omnivorous, eating algae with slug-like zooids on the ends of some of their tentacles, and meat, plants, and detritus with their gastrozooids. they also have leaf zooids with tiny pneumatophores on the ends going all the way down the tentacles connecting their algae eating zooids to their main bodies to increase area used for photosynthesis.

parathesian warships commonly have sea onyxes as symbionts, providing shelter, nutrients, CO2, and N2, and getting protection from UV, glucose, bioavailable nitrogen, and oxygen in return. due to needing to supply their symbiotic sea onyxes with CO2, parathesian warships with them will be far bigger and have far thicker tentacles, while also being dark green to black in color everywhere but the pneumatophores, which are always a vibrant grassy green.

typically a parathesian warship will have at least one circulatory zooid, which has a slightly denser nervous system than most of the zooids, and uses multiple large single-chambered hearts to move blood across itself, using tubes full of hemolymph to move around nutrients, oxygen, and CO2, allowing parathesian warships to get far bigger than a Portuguese man o’ war. they also always have one sensory zooid which allows them to see in black and white using seven rudimentary eyespots made of eyespot containing cells, allowing them to see land and avoid it by moving their algae eating zooids away from it while pointing their sails away from the shore.

Origin: Comb jelly  | Giant tube worm  | Stygiomedusa (Giant Phantom Jellyfish)

1: Comb jelly

• cilia
  
  

• tentacles covered in colloblasts for snagging marine snow and plankton for food.
  
  

2: Giant tube worm

• Symbiotic chemotrophic bacteria
  
  

• Heat resistance
  
  

3: Stygiomedusa (Giant Phantom Jellyfish)

• main body shape
  
  

• reproductive strategy

Despite it’s intimidating appearance, Timoremedusa Styx Is a harmless, gentle giant that subsists entirely on a combination of plankton, marine snow, and sugars produced by it’s symbiotic bacteria. Growing to a maximum size of 10 meters in length, they reproduce asexually budding off a miniature version of the adult from within the gastric cavity which will eventually undergo metamorphosis into a planula larva.

Origin: Charnia  | Zoanthid coral 

Charnia

• Frondose body
  
  

• asexual reproduction
  
  

Zoanthid coral

• stinging cells
  
  

• Vibrant colors (aposematic coloring)
  
  

• palytoxin
  
  

• hardiness
  
  

Neocharnia is a frondose organism that feeds on plankton and small animals with it’s venomous stings. They form small reefs in shallow waters, their vibrant colors being a warning of their toxicity.

Origin: Tribrachidium | Feather stars

Tribrachidium

• Tri-radial symmetry

Feather stars

• filter feeding filaments on arms.
  
  

• water vascular system
  
  

• regeneration of lost limbs
  
  

• calcified calyx that protects central organ mass

Origin: Saltasaurus  | Dromedary 

Saltasaurus
Large osteoderms on the back
Smaller osteoderms between the larger ones
Fermenting stomach
Rapid growth (they slow down as they get older but hatchlings grow fast under the first 15 years of their lives)
Supersaurus
Airsacks
elongated cervical vertebrae
Hollowed bones

dromedary
Fat bump
Their horror of a mouth known as papillae (The titanosaur teeth still exist alongside this horror)

Robusaravisaurus is large herbivore which graze upon a variation of plants and trees, they prefer conifers-like plants and ferns however due to Robusaravisaurus being a nomadic species it can cover a lot of ground during these long migrations and possessing a fat bump at the meeting of tail and thighs helps it to stave off starvation and deyhydration during long journeys without food. When they’re out on these long migrations they often push trees down and have a feast resulting in high conretrations of feces which renew the enviroment after the giants have taken their fill this often result in open meadows and trees being seperated from each other rather then a complete paradise of trees. Robusaraviaurus would be considered immune to predators when adults, their tails alongside the armour they have ussually deter most predators unless desperate only real predators exist is when their young often hatchlings and yearlings are in the greatest danger even then following years aren’t exactly easy on the young till they at least reach late stages of being juveniles often being young adults to be safe completely.
Egg clutches range from 15-50 eggs often then not only one makes it out of a clutch to adulthood due to the amount of predators hunting the young, though they go off the strategy off being too many to eat when their first born which at least aids their siblings to reach later years even if it was by pure numbers once a year.

Robusaraviaurus is relatively found all over the main part of the supercontinent though most herds are found in the north during summer before heading south during winter, their not picky when migrating but they do ignore certain plants due to their teeth not being able to deal with it and fermentation takes too long however the adults and young eat seperate things, adults often eat from trees and results in pushing them down while young eats low hanging trees or ground plants even eating aquatic plants if they pass them by during migration but their stomachs change during the years and by the time they reach adulthood its often limited to a select few species of plants.

Size: They’re slightly longer then real life supersaurus and barely taller.

Origin: Maybug  | March fly | Hessian fly

Maybug (real name would be censored)
Hibernate 80-100 cm in the ground during winter

March fly (also known as lovebugs)
Massive maiting swarms
Larvae eat decaying plant matter or plants close enough

Hessian fly
Lay 250-300 eggs
feeds on sap as adults

a species of beetle that dwells in temperate forests and plains as adults their sucking sap from undergrowth mostly species off grass and rare cases ferns meanwhile the grubs often laid on the surface off the earth and then hatching near decaying plant matter for the first year burrow down and endure the 3 years of change in a timer before they hatch supplementing their diet with roots during the years underground and when the time comes a swarm of these will fly and mate and repeat the process, adults live past their maiting season but a large part do die to predators and hibernate during winter again before reemerging to forage for food.

size: 30mm to 40mm

Origin: Numbat  | Snow owl | Musk deer 

Numbat
Colour gland (this produce a material which numbats do to make them self redder when an male is trying to find a mate)
claws
Insect tongue

Snow owl
Good night vision
Wings (weak power flight but are used as gliding wings for the most part)

Musk deer
its funny tusks
musk glands

A territorial species of marsupials gliding inbetween trees they are capable digging and forming burrows which is where they mostly nest however they do nest inside tree trunks when possible, females will alongside males have terrotires but male and females will have overlapping areas between the two sexes but never each other and when the time comes the male will move the glands at his cheek and spread it over his chest to get a red colour to appear attractive to his mates. They mark their territores with their musk gland which is quite strong and makes their intentions clear of it being their lands which range a lot with some even having territories entirely in the trees though the reason of this is their active search for prey inside the trees using their strong claws for their size to get bark off to get the goodies inside and with aid of their long tongue can reach prey easily inside though not nocturnal they posses a very good nightvision complenting their already strong eyesight aiding in spotting insects out in the open however this is more to find eusocial species rather then solitary insects though their not above eating insects when they can find them. Mothers will often get triplets and care for them under the year until they reach matiurty in late autumn and driven off by their mother with the females becoming adults the following month but males taking an extra year to reach adulthood due to larger size and their tusk being larger then those of females. Males also uses these tusk to joust however things can go ugly if none of them back down with them turning to their claws the loser usually either being killed or greviously wounded for predators to easily pick when done, they also use their tail of black and white and vocals first though as confentration is not an optimal end for either party

Size: 52.5 to 57 cm

Origin: muttaburrasaurus | Einiosaurus | Jaxartosaurus 

living on open fields the Cornucantatrixsaurus walks in herds reaching respectable sizes and males even becoming larger to compete with each other they play elborate songs to show their authority and when two males display against each other with no one backing off their being to push and shove each other and occasionally using their feet and horn to push the other with force and during breeding season the dominante male will sire all children in the center of the herd there will exist the rare outliner in the outside nests and outsiders from other herds often try their luck which often replaces the old male as all is expected to have a herd for one year before being shoved off their thrones. They can stand on two legs or all four, often running on two and tackling and fighting on four it also depends on the induvial some simply walking on all fours some only on two. They lay 15-27 eggs in their nests and are taken care off by the mother until they reach one years old which they’ll join the herd or set out to find their own, however despite their horn looking like it can defend itself it is rather just for mating and nothingelse but on larger males this display can be used as an impaler due to the angel off the horn however this is rare and often these males are not selected due to a problem in their songs.

Size: based of muttaburrasaurus size.

Origin: Frilled lizard | Armadillo girdled lizard | peafowl | magyarosaurus  

A small sauropod unlike its large relative this specimen barely reach 6 meter long and most barely reach the shoulder of an adult man this makes the Armaturasaurus a dwarf sauropod while this could occur naturally this is due to the genes of magyarosaurus making them small in comparision of the adults of the “near” relatives with this they carry airsacks making them float without much problem this in a twist saved them from extinction ending up on the island where their size can be supported without problem and their natural defences off the armadillo girdled lizard shows being armoured around its entire body only few execptions exist and these are the frills on the neck which deploy on full display, displaying red bright colour to scare possible predators off and attract mates and possbily to cool off or heat up to quickly become active due to being cold blooded, this is amplified with the peafowls long display feathers though these are only present upon the males as females have only the frill and armour while males also carry the long feathers, these are believed to be entirely meant for mating but it has shown rapid deployment cause make them appear bigger and having a bad temper doesn’t give much chance to second chance it but predators that can see through it can often get an easy meal if their larger than the sauropod dwarf. These adults also only lay 15-18 eggs and adults often then not protect these young till sub-adult which helps the species survive, males live alone or in bachelors herd but females and young can be found in herds moving around and grazing to feed themselves fermenting inside the stomach the low plant life or small trees which unlike the large sauropods are merely pushed downwards rather then full on pushed into the ground which makes the forest their common in not like the gardens of the giants. 

Origin: Musk Ox | Asian Small-Clawed Otter | KIller Whale (Orca) 

Musk Ox

• Incredibly Long Fur (40 Inches)

• Large and durable horns

• Live In Packs

Asian Small-Clawed Otter

• Extreme Hair density

• Social

• High Intellect

• Webbed Feet

KIller Whale (Orca)

• High Intellect

• Strong Jaw

• Strong Muscles

• Strategy

The Killer-Ott-Ox is a highly intelligent and powerful amphibious predator for their size. Their Immense amount of fur both protects them from the cold waters of the planet, as well as the mountainous regions and arctic regions of the planet. They are often seen protecting their young in the middle of a circle of adults, and use hunting strategies to hunt down, ram, and bite prey. Truly a formidable predator for their size.

Origin: coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), field mushroom (Agaricus campestris), irish moss (Chondrus crispus)

In temperate rainforests through the dark fog one may see the mushroom cloud tree and be of the belief someone has dropped a nuclear bomb in the forest. However this tree is perfectly radiation and destruction free, its red leaves soaking up the sunlight and sending shadows across the ground 

Origin: lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina), sphagnum moss (Sphagnum flexuosum)

Forming mass peat bogs in the cold wetlands of the planet the Fernmoss looks unassuming at first, but hiding in the fields of tiny fronds lies a tiny predator 

Origin: Caulerpa sp | Halymenia porphyraeformis 

algae that is a single cell with multiple nuclei, with a long horizontal stem with multiple root like structures, is not very different from Caulerpa being adapted to live in sandy bottoms, but it gets pigments from Halymenia, being red , giving it the chance to live in deeper waters.

Origin: Red algae | Calamites | Pacific turtlegrass (Thalassia hemprichii)

A medium-sized red fern (comparable to the size of a small bush) that lives underwater in relatively shallow areas. They multiply by releasing spores into the water in the areas where they are found and reproduce in it.

Origin: Allomyces anomalous | Coleochaete sampsonii 

A strange plant-fungus that floats in flat groups on the surface of the water, which for most of their lives behave as single cells until, during the breeding season, they form long strips of them, creating raft-like formations across the surface of the water, coloring them green. are used as phytoplankton. 

Origin: Alopecurus pratensis | bristly hollyhock | Drimia capensis | Paspalum scrobiculatum 

A bulbous perennial herbaceous chimeric plant that can grow up to 2 m tall and releases full flowers in the breeding season in a shape similar to a compressed foxtail with many tiny branches. After the flowers, which are approximately 3 cm in diameter each, they produce breadfruit before the plant's cane withers and sprout leaves in the rainy season. In a fire, the leaves are burned but the tubers are safe and able to bloom again quickly serving as a very durable nectar source. 

Origin: Carpobrotus edulis | Feijoa sellowiana | Pistacia lentiscus 

A broad shrub chimeric plant that spreads up to 5 m and reaches a height of 2 m, with fleshy leaves adapted to growing on beaches and Mediterranean soils. It has beautiful white-yellow flowers that are on each leaf and contains nectar that attracts pollinators and pollinates them and then large fruits are formed that are very similar to guava-pineapples a bit chewy, but edible. This plant is an evergreen perennial. 

Origin: Rhamphospermum arvense | Brassica oleracea | Trifolium repens 

An annual chimeric plant with leaf spikes that resemble lettuce and a tall flowering column with yellow flowers. is a plant that is no taller than a few centimeters but has many spikes and a relatively tall flowering column. This is a plant that spreads quickly. 

Origin: Casuarina | Ceratonia siliqua | Wisteria sinensis  

A tree-shrub with coniferous leaves and rows of purple-yellow flowers in bloom. A plant that reaches a height of 4 m on average, it is a drought-resistant plant and produces long and sweet fruits with large seeds and in large quantities. Evergreen plant. 

Origin: Helianthus annuus | Vitis vinifera | Ipomoea imperati 

A tree-shrub with coniferous leaves and rows of purple-yellow flowers in bloom. A plant that reaches a height of 4 m on average, it is a drought-resistant plant and produces long and sweet fruits with large seeds and in large quantities. Evergreen plant. 

Origin: Cactus  | Common Fly | Marram Grass 

• Cactus

  • spikes/spines capable of collecting water from atmosphere

  • flower and sexual reproduction via pollen

• Fly

  • wings

• Marram Grass

  • pioneer species capabilities

  • strong, complex roots

  • above-ground stolons

It would be a plant inhabitating desertous and barren areas, it would collect moisture from atmospheres with the use of its spikes located almost all over its surface. It develops stolons, stretching just above the ground to prevevent being covered by sand, and also for stability, along with the complex and strong root system underneath.

It reproduces sexually - it depends on smaller creatures that it attracts with its flower on top of it. Pollen is then carried away by these smaller creatures and possibly fertilize another individual.

Resulting zygote is then developing encasing and wing structure. After period of averagely 1 day, it disconnects from the parent organism and flies away on its wings. Eventually it will hit the ground, and out of encasing a new organism will arise.

It can develop on barren sands and thus is pioneer species.

Origin: Zamia furfuracea | giant bamboo | dandelion  

On first glance, the cyclone doesn't seem too strange - fern-like fronds emerge from a slender central stalk that typically stands about half a meter tall and terminates in a cattail-like clump of tightly-packed fluffy seeds. The only odd thing is that they're never seen alone - where you see one cyclone, you always see at least a few more nearby.... or at least, it would seem. What appears to be an entire thicket of hybrid plants is actually all a single clonal organism, with one plant putting out dozens upon dozens of rhizomes that each grow into a genetically identical plant. Each aboveground plant can have either male or female reproductive organs, effectively allowing it bypass the dioecious reproductive system of most gymnosperms - female cyclones grow much, much taller, often towering many meters above the ground on a long bamboo-like stalk in order to spread their seeds over greater distances. Small berry-like red fruits grow around the seed pod's base, but these are highly toxic - in fact, the whole plant has a degree of toxicity taken from its cycad ancestors, albeit to a much lesser extent. It was essentially designed to spread rapidly and form thick forests - a dangerous invasive in any other ecosystem, but a keystone species here on a world largely lacking in concrete ecosystems. 

Origin: Snapdragon | Zombie-ant Fungus | Aye aye | Giant Sequoia    

A Temperate to subpolar tree, they usually appear in the shape of enormous evergreen trees, with many colorful, hanging blossoms of snapdragons. This creates almost magical, incredibly vividly colored forests, with trees standing upwards of 350 feet tall. In the height of spring and summer, their is nowhere more beautiful, attracting pollinators for hundreds of miles around and making the woodlands be incredibly dense centers of life.

However, the same cannot be said the other half of the year. In a cruel twist of fate, beauty is turned into horrific monstrosities by necessity. The large boughs of the tree are now decorated in withered flowers, appearing as chains of primate like skulls as if mocking the woodlands former glory. As the cold of winter gets closer and closer, these skulls will start to shift, becoming 2 foot tall, oddly proportioned lemur like skeletons, with five long, narrow, and clawed digits. The animated husks of these dead blossoms serve the forests they are connected to, killing creatures far and wide and bringing them back to lay at the roots of their home tree, where they are consumed one by one to provide the tree with enough energy to make it to spring.

As the warmth sets in, the animated husks slowly run out of their own energy, dying and returning to the soil as their birth trees last meal before the coming season of beauty and prosperity. New trees can also be made by being carried and cared for by blossom husks, but are more often made via asexual reproduction through the roots.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Carnivory/Scavenging/Decomposing

Size: Tree bodies of upwards of 350 feet, Blossom Husks of around 2 feet tall.

Environment: Temperate and Subpolar Woodlands and Rainforests

Other: Blossom Husks, Incredible colors, Sweet Nectar, Pollen with an enchanting smell, loss of leaves and petals in winter

Origin: Geography Cone Snail | Sandbox Tree | Platypus | Walking Palm     

These fairly large trees are covered in tubular, thorn-like protrusions, which are partially hollow and filled with an intense mix of Geography Cone Snail Venom, Platypus Venom, and the Poisonous Sap of the Sandbox Tree. Utilizing electroreceptors all up and down the trunk of the tree, the tree can recognize when a critter is passing nearby and then launch their thorns at prey at upwards of 160 miles per hour. The trees large, elevated root system with then drag the large tree over the carcass as quickly as possible (minimal risk of tree toppling) to consume it as it continues to build up its toxins. It’s walking roots also allow it to search for locations with the most optimal amount of sunlight.

These trees are also easily able to thrive in semi-aquatic environments, and have had their bark reinforced with shell and bone material.

It’s seeds are largely similar to that of the Sandbox Tree, but significantly more poisonous and durable, surrounded by shell and bone and able to extract air from water as they grow if necessary. These seeds can be launched upwards of 350 feet from the parent tree during their initial explosion, and then early walking roots can carry the tree even farther as the seedling hunts for prey and an optimal area to set down its first real roots in the soil, locking it into that place until it matures enough for its roots to be fully developed and able to carry its adult weight against gravity.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Carnivory, Scavenging

Size: Upwards of 200 feet tall

Environment: Tropical and Subtropical Rainforests

Other: Exploding Fruits, Launching Poison Thorns, Intense Poison belgiumtail, Electroreception, Walking Roots, can be semi aquatic, shell and bone reinforced bark

Origin: Sundew | Venus Flytrap | Cobra Lilies | Pitcher Plants  

This beautiful, predatory bouquet can commonly be found in dimmer regions of the tropics where producers that rely upon direct sunlight tend to be lacking. Around its base is a wide array of various broad leaf types for collecting sunlight, and then the next layer up contains dozens of thin, tentacle like sundew leaves covered in their sweet nectar. These are followed by a layer of angled Venus flytrap traps, which themselves are ringed around a group of several large, slightly tilted pitcher plants. The final layer is composed of several tall, relatively thin cobra lily heads, bending and twisting in the wind like an actual serpent.

All in all, this photosynthesizer is the bane of all bugs in the tropics, luring them in with a wide variety of enticing scents and flavors before killing them with an even greater arsenal of deadly traps. And simply chewing away at the plant won’t work - its giant, extensive root system and large rhizome allow it to completely regrow its entire body at an incredibly rapid pace, even after being completely incinerated by intense flames.

An interesting weakness of this plant, however, is that very same heat. While the surface portion of this plant does incredibly well in the heat, and in fact cannot withstand the near year round freezing temperatures of the planets poles, dying if it attempts to grow there, the roots are quite the opposite, thriving in and seeking out cooler areas underneath the soil such as submerged rivers, but being completely unable to live anywhere with a soil that is too warm or where it receives too much sunlight, such as the grasslands or the desert.

The rovdyret has many ways of reproducing, including fragmentation of special, smaller, scale like leaves called gemmae from that form just atop their main leaves, black seeds that form from thin, brightly colored flowers that appear on stalks between and above the cobra lilies in the center of the plant in the summer and spring, and asexual spread of the plant through the roots or from plantlets forming where older, larger leaves touch the ground, though the ones that appear from this last method usually don’t grow quite as large as their parents due to more limited resources. The seeds and gemmae can be spread by a strong wind, by larger animals brushing up against the plant, or by insects attracted by the nectar who then managed to get away with an unexpected package.

They are not usually consumed by many of the common species of herbivores in times of plenty due to causing minor stomach troubles, but are large enough to occasionally be nipped at by medium to small herbivores, and devoured by all in times of scarcity.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Organisms of all kinds that are small and unfortunate enough to fall prey to it.

Size: 3-10 feet (height and diameter usually roughly equal

Environment: Woodland areas, Particularly common as jungle undergrowth but any moist, non-polar terrestrial environments with low sunlight will do, such as temperate forest floors

Other: Sundew Arms, Flytrap Mouths, Cobra Lily Heads, Pitcher plant bodies, ability to completely regrow from just roots, water storage, sweet lure, gemmae, seasonal flowers, seeds, asexual reproduction, heat and cold affect different parts differently

Origin: White-Fleshed Pitahaya (Dragonfruit) | Birch Trees | Pangolin | Bigleaf Maple 

Hardy plants able to live in almost any environment where the sun shines, these titanic trees are well known for their signature, scale like patterned bark and well armored but delicious fruit. While they don’t commonly grow in groves, they can be seen sparsely populating woodlands, plains, mountains, and deserts, and the scales they occasionally shed as they grow make great armor for smaller creatures.

In the spring, they sprout large flower like blooms all over the hanging vine-like structures among their branches. These flowers are wind pollinated, and come summer or fall thousands of lightly armored samaras (otherwise known as helicopter seeds) will be launched up into the wind, carrying their seeds far and wide as their second reproduction method, their fruits, are taken away by many hungry herbivores to locations where they can crack open the tough armor in relative safety, therefore spreading the seeds.

The leaves of this tree are absolutely massive, great for photosynthesis as well as heat regulation or insulating the trunk of this massive tree. The sap of this tree is also known to be a truly delicious delicacy if boiled just right, though often this is only rarely experienced by the creatures of this world if a truly devastating fire manages to somehow kill these extremely tolerant trees without cracking it open, leaving the delicacy for the scavengers after the ashes have settled to try and get access to.

Diet: Producer

Size: Usually around 70 feet tall, though particularly prodigious individuals are known to reach up to 160 feet in height

Environment: All environments except polar, from subpolar snowfields to temperate forests, to even in hot deserts and occasionally the tropical rainforests

Other: Deep and wide roots, samaras, armor plated bark, armored fruit, hanging fruit, internal water storage, giant leaves, white with black stripes scalebark, big flowers in spring, relatively fireproof and cold resistant

Origin: Bleeding Heart | Draco Lizard | Mangrove Tree | Mantis Shrimp

At first glance, the Svermtre just seems like another mangrove tree. Tall and sprawling, with many arching roots and immense structures of leafy branches. However, upon closer inspection, few key differences make themselves known.

First is the iridescent bark. Their bark, leaves, and roots are covered in a protective layer of shimmering bark, which becomes multicolored in direct sunlight, normally appearing as an iridescent teal on the belgium para and a thin, transparent layer on the leaves, revealing the green underneath. If any part of this tree is touched, the animal in question is also likely to come away with a rash.

Second noticeable thing is the looping stems hidden within the leaves, blooming year round with many heart shaped, hanging flower-like objects. However, these objects are actually the trees swarmlings.

Swarmlings are the lizard or and like defenders of their mother tree, living in harmony with other trees but detaching from their tree and unfolding Draco-lizard like wings to mob any creature dumb enough to try and attack their parent. They strike with heavy club like limbs or sharp spear like ones, large eyes on their lizard like head narrowing in fury as they strike. These creatures are also adept swimmers, uncurling their tails to swim and creating cavitation bubbles underwater with their strikes, resulting in all the more powerful blows. Once they have warned off or killed an attacker, they will usually consume it or bring it back to their parent tree’s roots for it to decompose, using many small limbs to climb back up among the branches of their parent tree.

When swarmlings are approaching a natural death, they do their best to find a member of another tree’s swarmlings, mate, and then fly as far away as possible. This is because their hearts are also seeds - they mate with the other swarmling, and then they both go to find a place to die where a new tree can grow from them, continuing the cycle.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Minor Omnivory

Size: Tree can grow up to 80 feet tall, including submerged roots. Individual swarmlings usually grow up to 8 inches long.

Environment: Tropical and Subtropical coastal and wetland biomes, whether they be Saltwater, Brackish, or Freshwater. Occasionally can grow to a much shorter height in similar temperate biomes.

Other: Mildly toxic (to touch can cause rash), semi-aquatic, bark and leaves reinforced with prismatic/transparent carapace, sprawling/looping branches create flowers, flowers are swarmlings that protect mother tree, Swarmlings are seeds, swarmlings have spear/club weaponry and good eyes, flying and swimming swarmlings

Origin: Norway spruce | Sugar pine | Ginkgo biloba     

A species of pine with the fruit of ginkgo encouranging animals to eat these fruit to spread the seeds which prove to yield more energy if fermented altough it is slightly bitter in taste, this could come from the fact the needles when decomposing causes the ph level to decrease the optimal chances of rival species living there and actually encourage the growth of the young of Piceaome, which often makes forest of these species dominated by adult Piceaome and any small plants that can endure the low ph in the soil. Interesting note is that the Piceaome reaches 77 meters in height and sometimes pushes above this in rare cases. The seeds are rather thick and can endure a long while inside the stomachs of most animals which allows them to being seeding upon being defecated out from the animal, this can also lead to them spreading far and wide. They do also possess pine cones but these are often found in younger speciemen who cannot afford growing the fruit of the adults of the species.

Size: 68-77 meters