#alien life

[alexriesart]

The artwork that helped get my first job in the videogame industry back in 2007.

It is a world I want to explore further...

#alex ries #my art #alien life #creature design #concept art #aliens

[yellosnacc]

Once again a creature from the continent of Slomen. A very primitive but also very specilised critter. 6 to 30 cm long, wet roots up to 45cm.

They live in many aquatic environments but most often you will find them in forest rivers and lakes. Some species have even adapted for life in the sea and could be considered fully aquatic while still air breathing.

Majority of the clade feeds on small animals like invertebrates sometimes parts of plants they can digest. Their hunting strategy is either burst swimming, jumping or just sliding on top of some slow prey.

There were two important species that started life on land, with the leaf ancestor being a smaller, less land specilised of the two. Leafs are one of their earliest evolutionary branches as land vertebrates and have retained many acient features like paw suckers and teeth instead of claws. In bigger vertebrates most of these little teeth were lost and became true claws or fingers (even present on the other land climber ancestor).

They can actually eat with their feet that are still closely connected to their stomach. But it applies only to very small food particles.

The wets are not very culturally significant but some regions do eat them. But the thick mantle isn't very tasty. In some places they symbolise good harvest season.

These little guys are also related to the 'birds' of Elve and I'm sure you can see why.

#art #speculative biology #artists on tumblr #digital art #artwork #worldbuilding #speculative evolution #spec bio #fantasy #original creature #creature design #spec evo #alien life #frog #slug #elve #pick up and run #speculative fantasy

[70sscifiart]

Horacio Salinas Blanch

#Horacio Salinas Blanch #cryosleep #alien life

[unexplainedthings]

#take me home #space #ufo #earth #alien #stars #sky #sightings #ufo sighting #aliens #extraterrestrial #flying saucer #nasa #outer space #paranormal #sighting #strangeness #unexplained #alien life #moon #et #uap

[damselflyvids]

xenobiology of Vesta

I was overcome with the need to collect some of my favorite critters.

The creators of Scavengers Reign put so much effort into creating rich and varied ecosystems. To me it shines through that they were inspired by a deep knowledge and appreciation of the diversity of life on Earth. So here's a game: you pick any creature in this video, and I will tell you at least one Earth species I think it's based on!

Music is Heartfelt Recess, by I Am Waiting for You Last Summer.

#scavengers reign #fanvid #xenobiology #speculative biology #alien life #I had 70 clips of cool lifeforms for this! so many didn't make it in #maybe I can work them into future vids...

[groundrunner100]

For those complaining about the Alien franchise not being on here, keep in mind the only aliens in that franchise are the Xenomorphs, & the Engineers.

Anyway, be sure to reblog your favorite alien species/character!

#aliens #alien life #public opinion #space people #Ben 10 #Destiny #Halo #Mass Effect #The Orville #Ratchet And Clank #Star Wars #Star Trek #Transformers #Valerian #Duck Dodgers #Star Wars: The Old Republic #Valerian And The City of A Thousand Planets #Transformers: Generation 1 #Destiny 2 #Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart #Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #Mass Effect: Andromeda #Ben 10: Alien Force #Halo: Reach #Star Wars: The Clone Wars #Transformers IDW #Ratchet And Clank Future: A Crack In Time #Mass Effect 2 #Star Trek: The Next Generation #Ben 10: Omniverse

[qualifiedaquarian]

#the crash sight #ufos #ufo #alien life #alien world #aliens and ufos #dinosaur #dinosaurs

[spettelt]

Uh Oh...

#Qu #all tomorrows #space art #space #horror #eldritch #alien life #digital art #digital drawing #astronaut #the qu #alien #extraterrorestrial alien encounter

[hiyutekivigil]

LIFE BEYOND II by Melodysheep

#life beyond #melodysheep #alien life #alien #extraterrestial life #documentary #space documentary #astronomy #stem academia #hiyutekivigil #museum #natural history museum #cyberpunk #futuristic #stem

[pangeen]

" The Question Remains " //© Astrovia

#space #planets #earth #moon #Sun #Mercury #Venus #Mars #Jupiter #Saturn #Uranus #Neptune #Pluto #Aliens #Alien Life #UFO #UAP #extraterrestrial #Theory #aesthetics #wanderlust #explore #follow #discover

[rj-drive-in]

We Are Not Alone Department:

“Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.” - Florence Nightingale

ETHEREAL © 2024 by Rick Hutchins

Most of them kind of folks will tell you about the disks and the cylinders and the saucers. Them’s the kind I don’t believe. I believe the ones who don’t talk unless they’re sure about you. Or the ones like me, who leave it till after they’re dead.

That’s why I’m writing this. I’ll be gone soon and it’s important that you know.

It wasn’t long after the war and I was just back from occupied Germany. I had missed my New Mexico desert something fierce and so I went out camping, by myself, at my favorite spot. You know the one, out by the butte.

I was lying on my bedroll by my campfire, staring up at the stars, when it came down from the sky. Fluttering, like a lady’s handkerchief. It came down and it stopped, not twenty feet away from me.

It was pure white and had a light of its own. It looked like the dance of the seven veils, underwater and slow; but there was no dancer-- only veils. And the parts weren’t connected, they just swirled around one another in a dreamlike way. I had the feeling that each one was a person. A person of a sort, anyway.

It was so beautiful it made me cry.

I saw and did a lot of things back in the war, and I’m not going to tell you about any of it. All I’ll say is that I was a man full of heartache. But this thing, these people-- whatever it was, it saved me. Its beauty brought me back alive.

Now you know. That’s why I’ve gone out there so much over the years, to that spot. I’ve been wishing for them to come back.

When I’m gone, I want you to do something for me: I want you to go out there and spend the night, whenever you can. And if they do come back, if you do see them, please try to make them understand that there are still so many people who need to be saved.

#short story #short fiction #microfiction #micro fiction #flash fiction #science fiction #alien life #close encounter #fantasy #rick hutchins #rjdiogenes

[alexriesart]

The pigeon sized sacred chattertail is a friend to birrin farmers, with its ability to root out agricultural pests such as the eusocial glassworms.

#my art #creature design #concept art #alien life #birrin

[praytothegoat]

#alien life #memes #funny shit

[70sscifiart]

Andrew C. Stewart

#Andrew C. Stewart #trees #forest #alien life

[unexplainedthings]

#space #ufo #earth #alien #stars #sightings #ufo sighting #aliens #extraterrestrial #flying saucer #nasa #outer space #paranormal #et #sighting #strangeness #unexplained #alien life #the truth is out there

[project-deroth]

A basic herbivore for my spec bio project, along with its orange skeleton.

It’s actually a community based project, so if you’re interested in making some species for it, feel free to ask for invite to the discord server where we make these creeturs!

#alien species #speculative biology #speculative worldbuilding #art #spec evo #deroth #alien life #spec bio #speculative evolution