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Posts by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Endothermic or ectothermic? Alien biology

Hey guys so I've posted on this site before and I've finally made an account so I'd like to ask again about mine and my friend's webcomic WIP. Biology wise, I've made three main groups of animals, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Alien Griffin Design

Another question for my comic: my friend has made a demand that I give one of her characters a flying mount, preferably griffin-like. I have some designs but I want them to be plausible: How bulk...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Underground Solar Interaction

In my WIP (webcomic in progress) mentioned in my other posts, there is an earth-originated colony based on an alien planet in a semi-post-apocalyptic society with limited technology and resources. ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Giant Insects Made Plausible - Nymph Gills to Pseudo Lungs

I've had a great idea to leap over the giant boundary of respiration when making giant insects.The largest problem is that insects rely on diffusion through exterior holes (spiracles) to breathe, a...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Could mammals and dinosaurs coexist as the dominant animal group?

The title is a bit different to the question, but there's a reason to that. I am currently in the worldbuilding stage of creating an alien planet, mainly the wildlife, and I may have run into a pro...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A What's a good structure for biological parasitic mind control

So I thought up this alien parasite that enters through the mouth (usually of a predator) where it attaches to the throat and simultaneously takes control of the brain and replaces the esophagus of...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Humanoids with digitigrade legs?

I've designed an alien race of bipedal humanoids with digitigrade legs. This race's advanced scientific progress means that they use traditionally human-associated technology, or similar (such as ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A At what point does sensitive hearing become a hindrance instead of an advantage? (For a predator.)

I've designed a creature for my alien world that is a large apex predator known commonly as a wraith. It lives mostly in dense jungle and forest and uses stealth and ambush to catch its prey (it ca...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Alien Wings, a Different Design

Not sure if this is too broad, but I am currently in the process of making a few flying alien species and, of course, didn't want to use the old insect or bat-like wings. Of the types of wings (or...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Can there be a moon within a planetary ring?

A simple question, could a moon exist and stay whole if it was inside the ring of asteroids orbiting a planet? And as a side note, would it create a kind of bulge in the ring where the asteroids su...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Nostrils? why not feathery tentacles?

Simple question I think, I have some Idea of the answer but would like the ol' second opinion. Vertebrates use olfactory glands in their nostrils (or thereabouts) to sense smell, as well as the roo...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by XenoDwarf‭

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Q&A Alien Mammal-Like Ears

So I'm trying to design my alien life around the pressures they might face just like earth's wildlife, and most things I've made plausible life that is similar to ear but not giant dinosaur cats. T...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by XenoDwarf‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by XenoDwarf‭