Hot Rains/Nacrefalls 3/9 | Alien (Other) | Scenery
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Part 3 of the series of pictures of the Hot Rains, and how they became the Nacrefalls. You can see a mollusc here in the sea, some distance away from the Hot Rains. It breeds there - hence the small, wiggly, pink larvae around it. In the next few sections I'll show how they get to the top of the volcano.
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Possible ret-cons: I haven't designed the invertebrate life of Kaleida yet but it's pretty likely there'll be bivalves, considering that this is an Earth-like planet and bivalves have existed on Earth for a very long time. Once I know what sort of bivalves would exist in the tropical seas of this area I'll know what adjustments to make to these particular ones.
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Art type: Colour drawing
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Appears in: Kaleida
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Hmm pretty nice :) I wonder what they'll look like once they are fully grown :3
I love those giant clams you sometimes see. You know, the ones that are about 4ft wide and can hold an adult human underwater if they stick their hand in and it snaps shut? But I don't know how different my own bivalves will be once they're done.
Thanks! I reckon that because bivalves are really simple, bilaterally symmetrical creatures that something similar would show up on Kaleida. I was just talking with the artist of the Sunset Cathedra and Blue Soils about evolutionary paths on alien worlds and she reckons that something very similar to crabs, trees, sharks, and crocodiles would show up on alien worlds because different groups of animals tend to do that here on Earth, and evolve to be similar through convergent evolution. Wherever there's lots of examples of convergence there's probably going to be something similar on an alien planet somewhere.
I'll have to ask her what she thinks of bivalves.
I'll have to ask her what she thinks of bivalves.
The thing I find really fascinating is that one of the most successful species ever to live on Earth - humans - have such an unusual body shape. How many species lost most of their fur and started walking about on two legs? Yet it's a pretty good survival strategy. I'm not sure how or why we ended up the way we did.
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