Procoptodon by Cerri Thomas. Sthenurines have long been speculated as weird tip-toe walkers rather than hoppers, and now studies have definitely confirmed this.
So SVP 2019 abstracts are out:
2019-08-30 15:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
</figure>Maiopatagium furculiferum, artist uncredited.
So people who are aware of the “flying foxes are primates” hypothesis may also be aware of its twin hypothesis, that primates evolved from gliding or flying ancestors. This is due to the assumption that primates are nested deeply in a clade of gliding/flying mammals alongside c...
2019-08-29 12:15:56 +0000 UTC View PostSo I'm planning an alternate history project involving a hypothetical Antarctic/Subantarctic civilisation, and here's a sneak work in progress peak
Mythology
An universal motif among Antarctic peoples is the dualistic perception of the cosmos. The universe is divided into two oceans, the "dark" ocean where ships sail and the "light" ocean where the sun swims. The sky, it is reasoned, is another sea that mirrors the physical ocean, clouds analogous to icebergs and stars and constel...
2019-06-19 12:15:29 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://ichthyoconodon.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/gondwannan-metatherians-triplex/
https://medium.com/@Mullerornis/gondwannan-metatherians-triplex-3a34151c3ab
2019-04-04 14:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostA lizard cowers in fear.
It tooks to the sun for help, but the sun sinks deeper into the range, orange and black contrasting against each other.
It has abandoned the faithful.
The lizard despairs, and fear leads to anger.
It imagines, for a moment, what it would be like to kill its enemies, to make them feel its fear and pain. To see their bodies broken, their features distorted, their limbs rearranged, their tendons fine strings for an eldritch instrument only a twisted mind could comprehend.
Such is the ...
2019-03-04 01:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Fallen Máni: Second Ætt is ready and should be availiable on Kindle within the next 23 hours.
Contact me if you want a free sample.
2019-02-13 18:27:04 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://calahao.wixsite.com/carlosalbuquerque
2019-02-10 17:49:14 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1oK7UP9bMC5eK23QUuRUrBnLJNnxX7vaVmXlc0fMoBW8/edit?usp=sharing
2019-01-13 19:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
My fire is out of control
The flames fan out and roll
And I have no vision.
The sky is cold
But I sweat down in friction.
I the light of a candle
A candle spinning out of control
Until the lid quenches me
And yet I still live.
And yet I still live, in pain.
2018-12-29 01:20:38 +0000 UTC View PostMark my words: a Zoo Tycoon movie that's existentialist.
2018-12-14 01:55:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn addition to finishing the second half of Fallen Máni, I think I'll start working on my Anamils project as well. Not sure if it will ever get off the ground as an animated series, but I sure as hell will try.
2018-12-04 04:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
<figure>Vintana sertichi cast and skull by Story Brook University. While it doesn’t seem to have a trunk per se, it does already have an enlarged nasal cavity with deep muscle attachment sites. Note also massive xenarthran-like lateral flanges.</figure>
As question I sometimes ask myself when designing fictional mammal species is what can and can not have trunks. A trunk as typically defined with a complex fusion of ...
2018-11-18 13:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostOnce upon a time a snail came with the Autumn rains.
From where it came, no one knows, and for how long it stayed is known only to the eyes of light in the ceiling. Still, it must have come from somewhere pleasant, where it grasped and felt wet, marshy soil and not a dry, cold altar, where the wind blowed and the air wasn't dead and hot, where soothing darkness rather than harsh light surrounded it.
And it left this place, for some reason or another. It happened upon a strange, bright, harsh world, and it cur...
2018-11-17 23:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post <figure>
I am she of powerful wings,
Gusts of wind scouring the earth,
The earth which I rule,
Which I rule as I do the heavens and hell.
I am the conqueror,
She who bears the prongs of the antelope,
The talons of the eagle,
The twin leopards at my flanks.
I who rule all three realms remake them to my will.
2018-10-04 01:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post(Set in Barraw, a plane at Magic: Expanded Multiverse)
Damin stirs the fire.
On most of Barraw, this would have been easier than breathing. But in the hanging swamps, the air was sultry, viscous and hot as if the marsh water was one with the air. This suited the Batarka and their holistic ravings, but for Damin it was hell. He was far from his beloved outback and the gaze of the sun; whatever sunlight he drew forth in these accursed foggy lands was life-giving if somewhat caustic, but hardly a fire-starter. Not even...
2018-09-08 01:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Within a single hour, Voltron: Legendary Defender has gone from a beloved revival of both a long running franchise and action animation as a whole to a highly divise series. This controversy is primarily rooted in how the show has decided to tackle the issue of LGBT representation: one of its main characters, the former black lion paladins Shiro, has been officially revealed as a gay man, but his love interest, Adam, is killed off unceremoniously and u...
2018-08-12 02:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you were forgetting about flying volaticotheres, got another breakthrough with Ichthyoconodon's and Jugulator's molar encasements. Stay tuned in, because I can promise you wings in amber are a matter of time.
2018-08-03 02:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe most mysterious lineage of marine mammals, thylacophocids are a cryptic but incredibly diverse clade ranging from small, otter-like forms to whale sized marine predators. They are the most successful and disparate group of non-therian mammals, their ancient origins in part implicating for both their bizarre body plans and ecologies as well as cryptic habits, having been pushed to specialised niches by more recent placental swimmers.
Thylacophocids diverged from all other mammals in the early Jurassic, being slightly closer to t...
2018-08-01 23:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostAll life is connected, all life is one. Harmony is the usual conclusion from this, but I prefer to tug at the chains. The spirits and gods may be worthy of respect, but they will respect me as well.
2018-07-06 00:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So in the light of the ridiculous "Titan Dolphin" here's my idea for flying cetaceans replacing The Future Is Wild's flying critters:
1- Five million years ago, a lineage of cetaceans acquires the habit of flapping its forelimbs while porpoising. Over time, the flipper replaces the tail as the main propulsor, leading to penguin-like cetaceans (gannetwhales).
2- Over time penguin-like cetaceans develop progressively larger flippers, allowing for true powered flight. Cetaceans are already mildly exadapted for flight: their bo...
2018-06-12 01:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Putin dies and suffers with each breath I take.
Each time I walk ten thousand bones of his break.
Each time I breath a thousand pieces of his soul are burned.
Each time the sun rises his flesh is burnt to cinder.
Each time the wind blows his skin is scraped from his bones.
Oh gods above and below me, kill this abomination and make him suffer;
Make him suffer a thousand deaths every second of every hour of year one thousand years.
2018-06-01 00:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostAncient Galaxies, you are the openers of the way. Your songs are the tapestry of my thoughts, my words, my actions. Your weave Light and Dark into a strange prophecy, of waxing and waning, of Heat and Stillness. Your hairs are the strings of Plasma and your veins our flesh. Ancient strings and gyres, move the tapestry before my eyes, so I may sing more clearly. Move me to extremes, and guide me through these spells.
First, there was Light. It was an ocean of white fire, and within it was born Day, the far-reacher and far-darter, the first ema...
2018-05-12 01:40:18 +0000 UTC View PostMay the Sun be rejoiced!
Light waxes warmer, ochre becomes gold, gold becomes silver
As the swift swans enliven day!
She is the womb,
The golden placenta that gestates and births life
Upon the earth; her light milk and yolk to nourish and color.
Her form, an egg,
Always breaking its shell,
From which phoenixes rise.
Children are raised under her warmth,
Flowers blossom and foals grow,
Stags sprout the forest's crown.
Light ages the bo...
2018-05-07 01:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostDid some drastic world building redesigning on Aethersworn. Will show them when the time is right, of course.
2018-04-11 23:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The first third of my novel is out!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079SSP8X2
This took me seven long years to write, and I'm glad I can share at least part of it.
Fox Amoore's "Remember Me" inspired this story, so naturally I used it (with permission AND payment). Additional credits go also to Travis Ratledge (vocals) and Dylan Bajda (the commissioned picture you see, that's the cover).
2018-02-14 21:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079SSP8X2
Cover by Dylan Bajda.
2018-02-14 12:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostUndergoing editing before publishing.
2018-02-14 00:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post
