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Mature pinnicrabs. I mean, they're technically still adolescents, but they ACT mature for their age.

Midjourney 6

#ai aliens #crab x sea lion hybrids #crustacean x pinniped hybrids #arthropod x vertebrate hybrids #panspermic extrasolar chimerae

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Pinnicrab pups, relatives and likely eventual prey of the Orcrabs, Midjourney 6

#extrasolar ai tidepool fauna #crab x seal hybrids #crustacean x pinniped hybrids #arthropod x vertebrate hybrids #panspermic alien chimerae

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Craborca pups. Thousands hatch, few survive to maturity as pelagic apex predators. Midjourney 6

#ai tidepool fauna #crab x orca hybrids #crustacean x cetacean hybrids #arthropod x vertebrate hybrids #panspermic extrasolar chimerae #probably some sea turtle in there as well

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Arctic spiderbears, POSSIBLY distant panspermic relatives of the Gnoph-Keh. Midjourney 6

#chimerical ai aliens #vertebrate x arachnid hybrids #tarantula spider x polar bear hybrid #panspermic extrasolar fauna #lovecraft and spiders and bears oh my

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Temperate spiderbears, Midjourney 6. I think of these as true mammalian vertebrates with a superficially spider-like body form.

#chimerical ai aliens #bear x spider hybrids #tarantula x grizzly kodiak black bear hybrid #panspermic extrasolar fauna #bears beats battlestar galactica

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Beetlemoose, panspermic relatives of the beetle stags, Midjourney 6.

#chimerical ai aliens #beetle x moose hybrids #insect x artiodactyl hybrids #arthropod x mammal hybrids #temperate extrasolar fauna

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Volcanic island crab frogs, Midjourney 6

#ai fantasy critters #sally lightfoot crab #tomato frog #extrasolar hybrids #panspermic chimerae #crab frog and crab toad are friends

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Panspermic chimericonches featuring sea snail, sea snake, sea turtle, mudskipper, cuttlefish, crustacean, and echinoderm genes at varying weights and ratios.

These last two are clearly larval Conchodiles.

Midjourney 6

#extrasolar beachcombing #littoral panspermic aliens #vertebrate x invertebrate hybrids #fish and reptile x mollusc and crustacean chimerae #go fighting horse conches

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Larval Velelleatherback, also known as the Portugese turt-o-war. Midjourney 6

#extrasolar beachcombing #velella velella #portugese man 'o war #leatherback sea turtle #panspermic chimerae and hybrids

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Cothurnocystis gecko, often mistaken for an earwig or owlfly gecko by exozoological dilettantes. Midjourney 6

#happy ai easter #echinoderm x reptile hybrid #stylophora x lizard hybrid #asymmetrical panspermic chimera #lopsided extrasolar fauna

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Rainforest isofrogs. Isophrods...? Midjourney 6.

#ai armadillidiidae arthrophibians #isopod x frog hybrids #crustacean x amphibian chimerae #woodlice pill bugs potato bugs sow bugs roly polies #panspermic and extrasolar fauna

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Rainforest bug frogs: conehead katyfrog and Hercules beetlefrog. Midjourney 6

#ai insect x frog hybrids #katydid x frog #dynastes x frog #panspermic chimerae #tropical extrasolar jungle

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Grumpy desert beetle toads freshly emerged from aestivation with the first spring rains. Midjourney 6

#ai rain frog analogs #panspermic dynastes x amphibian hybrids #extrasolar insect x vertebrate chimerae #aw but come on so cute!

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I saw a horrible video once of a gecko getting its face chewed off by a solifugid. I want to think that in some alternate world, that solifugid assimilated the gecko's genome and then pupated and eventually a hybrid of the two emerged. So in remembrance of that horrific interaction, have a solifugecko.

Midjourney 6

#ai synthesis #camel spider wind scorpion sun spider solifuges #solifugae x lizard hybrid #reptile x arachnid chimera #extrasolar and panspermic desert fauna #nature trauma

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Pursuant to the ceratopsiants, my good friend Ben requested ceratopsian wasps and/or ceratopsian treehoppers. Exceeding my wildest expectations, Midjourney 6 somehow nailed both in one pass, albeit in the form of an outsized museum diorama. But hell, I'll TAKE WHAT I CAN GET

#ai exhibit display #panspermic styracosaurus wasp #extrasolar centrosaurine x hymenopteran chimera #tapirverse dinobugs ftw

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Ceratopsiants, likely competitors for the galaxy's smallest ceratopsian panspermids.

Midjourney 6

#ai dinobugs #panspermic ant x ceratopsian hybrids #extrasolar dinosaur x insect chimerae #tapirverse fantasy fauna

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Stealthed cyberspider, perhaps a "chase car" for the racing spiders, or a vector of rival corporate espionage, or a self-destructing agent deployed to eliminate incriminating evidence of such illegal unsanctioned incursions into a protected extrasolar ecological theatre...?

Midjourney 6

#ai cyberspider #stealth cyborg spider #von neumann fauna #extrasolar cyborganic contamination #oh what a tangled web we weave