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Another alternate-species, possibly my favorite of the lot: Jackel the Opabinia, terror of the Cambrian seas!!!!
I notched her gills, but the back markings were the most fun on this one. This one I'm going to have to finish, eventually.
What the heck is this creature? Well, the paleontologists really haven't agreed. That's part of the fun, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia
I notched her gills, but the back markings were the most fun on this one. This one I'm going to have to finish, eventually.
What the heck is this creature? Well, the paleontologists really haven't agreed. That's part of the fun, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 800 x 1057px
File Size 75.1 kB
I consider it one of his very best books, and the final chapter, both disturbing and extremely moving -- disturbing, because it conveys the inescapable role of contingency in the transmission of biological traits; moving, because it conveys the profound debt that we owe to species long vanished.
In a sense, the book is a love letter to ancestral generations that we can only ever know as fossils; yet we are only here because they once were.
Mark
In a sense, the book is a love letter to ancestral generations that we can only ever know as fossils; yet we are only here because they once were.
Mark
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