Here's more creatures from Umyos. Instead of just doing one species at a time, which would take for ever, I decided to show a whole clade at ones (well, sort of, there's a second page of these creatures I'm working on).
These are gaushans. They're medium to large herbivores. The gaushans' four front legs are tiny and have only a single claw. In the larger herding types these claws are used for social grooming. It is unknown what the even smaller claws in the solitary gaushans are used for. And like the rest of the life forms on Umyos, gaushans do have mandibles, however they are inside the gaushans' mouths and the cheeks grow over them. The only part of the mandible that is visible is a pair of tusks sticking out the front of the mouth. They live mainly in savannas, however they can be found in every environment from rain forests to deserts. Gaushans mainly live in large herds, however the more primitive forest living solitary guashans live alone. They play the role of antelopes, deer and kangaroos on their world. The gaushans in the top box and the one on the far right of the middle box move by jumping like kangaroos, while the others run like dinosaurs. The two blue boxes are monophyletic groups while the yellow box is a waste bin taxon of primitive forms.
The covered horn guashans (top box) are fairly generic as far as gaushans are concerned. They live in savannas and dry forests and are mainly grazers. What distinguishes them is their jumping movement (which they share with the spike tails, who are on the next page) and their unusual horn that grows from the end of a bony stalk, similar to a muntjac. Although stalked horns appear to be a primitive feature which is also shared by some of the solitary gaushans.
The solitary gaushans are a grade of small, solitary living browsers. Many of them have either primitive or highly unusual features that separate them from the other clades within the gaushan clade. All of them live in forests, mostly rain-forests, except the dull yellow one who lives in sand dunes. Their unusual coloring comes from the fact that Umyos has mainly blue chlorophyll, especially in wet areas. Drier land has red colored plants. There is also some highly efficient purple plants that only live in deep shade. However dead plant matter is still colored the same as on Earth, which is why there are orange and black gaushans to camouflage with wet dead leaves on the forest floor, and why the covered horns are yellow like dry grass. In addition to being leaf browsers many of the solitary gaushans are fruit eaters. The dune runner is unique among guashans for being an omnivore, who will occasionally eat insects and carrion when it finds them.
The last box is the horse headed gaushans. Most gaushans have a concave indent between their nose and forehead, giving them a deer like profile. This clade's faces are either completely flat or convex in profile, making them look more horse like. The horse headed gaushans are both grazers ans browsers (although individual species tend to specialize in one or the other). They live in savannas, scrub land and deserts, except for the gray one in the bottom left who lives in mountainous land.
The animals in each box are proportionate to each other and to the human size comparison with them, however each box of animals is not proportionate in comparison to the other boxes.
These are gaushans. They're medium to large herbivores. The gaushans' four front legs are tiny and have only a single claw. In the larger herding types these claws are used for social grooming. It is unknown what the even smaller claws in the solitary gaushans are used for. And like the rest of the life forms on Umyos, gaushans do have mandibles, however they are inside the gaushans' mouths and the cheeks grow over them. The only part of the mandible that is visible is a pair of tusks sticking out the front of the mouth. They live mainly in savannas, however they can be found in every environment from rain forests to deserts. Gaushans mainly live in large herds, however the more primitive forest living solitary guashans live alone. They play the role of antelopes, deer and kangaroos on their world. The gaushans in the top box and the one on the far right of the middle box move by jumping like kangaroos, while the others run like dinosaurs. The two blue boxes are monophyletic groups while the yellow box is a waste bin taxon of primitive forms.
The covered horn guashans (top box) are fairly generic as far as gaushans are concerned. They live in savannas and dry forests and are mainly grazers. What distinguishes them is their jumping movement (which they share with the spike tails, who are on the next page) and their unusual horn that grows from the end of a bony stalk, similar to a muntjac. Although stalked horns appear to be a primitive feature which is also shared by some of the solitary gaushans.
The solitary gaushans are a grade of small, solitary living browsers. Many of them have either primitive or highly unusual features that separate them from the other clades within the gaushan clade. All of them live in forests, mostly rain-forests, except the dull yellow one who lives in sand dunes. Their unusual coloring comes from the fact that Umyos has mainly blue chlorophyll, especially in wet areas. Drier land has red colored plants. There is also some highly efficient purple plants that only live in deep shade. However dead plant matter is still colored the same as on Earth, which is why there are orange and black gaushans to camouflage with wet dead leaves on the forest floor, and why the covered horns are yellow like dry grass. In addition to being leaf browsers many of the solitary gaushans are fruit eaters. The dune runner is unique among guashans for being an omnivore, who will occasionally eat insects and carrion when it finds them.
The last box is the horse headed gaushans. Most gaushans have a concave indent between their nose and forehead, giving them a deer like profile. This clade's faces are either completely flat or convex in profile, making them look more horse like. The horse headed gaushans are both grazers ans browsers (although individual species tend to specialize in one or the other). They live in savannas, scrub land and deserts, except for the gray one in the bottom left who lives in mountainous land.
The animals in each box are proportionate to each other and to the human size comparison with them, however each box of animals is not proportionate in comparison to the other boxes.
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