Snaiad: Updating the Spinostomes
Added 2022-07-27 08:01:48 +0000 UTCGreetings everyone! It's so nice to see new and generous supporters join this platform. I must thank you all from the bottom of my heart - in these hard times, every penny is helping me out dearly.
Today I am giving you a sneak peek from Snaiad, where I spent the better part of July 2022 re-designing and re-illustrating the various spinostome clades.
Fans of old Snaiad will remember these creatures, with their cool-looking but mechanically-incomprehensible "spiny prolapsed donut" mouths (See old illustration above). I have overhauled the entire lineage, keeping all old forms (and adding even more new sub-lineages), but re-working their mouth structures.
Now the Spinostomes have more "regular" second-head mouths - and folded within, their characteristic feeding structure is an enormous, blanket-like, placental organ lined with microscopic, hypodermic spines - imagine shark skin that drains you.
Spinostomes use these organs in a variety of ways, but the most common method is achieved by unfolding this vast organ and engulfing their freshly-killed prey entirely. These feeding organs enable spinostomes to extract far more energy from their prey - but they must remain stationary while feeding.
Comments
That's how I imagined it roughly, but I felt like it was a messy and uncompetitive way to process food. BUT there will be micro-spinostomes which still roughly do the same thing :)
C. M. Kosemen
2022-10-11 12:55:44 +0000 UTCI know this may be late here, but I never found the prospect of them eating with that kind of mouth prior to this redesign incomprehensible; I'd imagined they'd grab food with it, move the food item in and out with the mouth's surface folding into itself "chewing" it with its spiny surface prior to swallowing.
Kyre Fiskrof
2022-09-09 23:03:48 +0000 UTCIt's actually the true mouth! The "placental" label just refers to its overall shape... For more on Snaiadi anatomy, see http://cmkosemen.com/snaiad_web/sndanatomy.html
C. M. Kosemen
2022-08-16 07:02:52 +0000 UTC
