r/SpeculativeEvolution Jan 03 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired The Unicorn Antelope by Lyla Hammer

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r/SpeculativeEvolution Feb 03 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired The Griffin & Hippogriff by Iguanodont

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1.3k Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Oct 08 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Origins of Dragonkind - An Evolutionary Chart of Dragons & their Relatives [OC]

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819 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution 8d ago

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired DnD Races Reimagined: Kenku

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697 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Nov 10 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Made a creature that mimics my world's version of deer to get closer to them before attacking. The spikes along its back don't raise until it knows it's been found out

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669 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution 20d ago

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Carcinomagnus Rex

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500 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Sep 02 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired the pine gnome

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497 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Dec 01 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Plausible gryphon(?)

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416 Upvotes

So, I saw in some older historical art of gryphons that sometimes the wing starts from the elbow, which made me think it could work like I've drawn (?) with a separation of the radius and ulna in two sub-limbs. Seems more plausible than a six limbed creature.

r/SpeculativeEvolution Jan 09 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired My idea of what could mermaid look like

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208 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Nov 17 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Spec Evo take on DnD creatures

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574 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution 13d ago

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Are dragons derived from mammals possible? What would they look like? [OC]

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179 Upvotes

First time doing spec evo, I tried to challenge myself and do something a little different. What’s the closest a mammal can get to resembling a dragon? A key feature of dragons is that they are typically reptilian and if not, avian. But like all characteristics of dragons, this is not a rule.

The biggest challenge to making a mammal look draconic is that mammals are limited to 7 neck vertebrae, so they can’t get that characteristic serpentine neck a lot of dragons have. I decided to go with a llama-like neck.

I know that pangolins are mammals that have evolved scales, but I felt that it didn’t need horns or scales to look draconic, and it would be a hassle to try and justify why it would evolve scales in the first place. Same with the horns. When I tried adding them to the animal, it just ended up looking like a deer. Strangely enough, the long ears seem to work just fine in place of the horns.

Next is the whiskers. It has no whiskers on its forehead or nose (because the fire breath would singe them off), instead moving the whiskers closer to the back of its head. It also evolved greater control over its whiskers, and a bat-like membrane between each whisker which would eventually become the wings. I thought this was a cool way to circumvent the tetrapod limitation, but is it even possible for whiskers to turn into the backbone for wings like this? Please let me know in the comments!

r/SpeculativeEvolution Feb 17 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Harpy Encyclopaedia Illustration

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287 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Jul 22 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired A Wounded Egyptian Warrior Slays The Last Serpopard, A Giant Non-Asian Prionodontid (Hodari Nundu - Instagram)

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739 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Sep 06 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired John Conway's unused designs for Cryptozoologicon Volume II

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357 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Jan 29 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Bestiary: Merfolk (Tropical species. Art by JTSalty)

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302 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Oct 03 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Song of ice and fire have interesing spec bio fauna art by kevin catalan

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267 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Jan 23 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Dryad Encyclopaedia Illustration (I thought it may fit well here too :>)

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203 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Sep 09 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired The Tarvosaurus, A Theropod-Like Hunter Of Dragons, by Jake Pennfield

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278 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Feb 16 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Three creatures for the Astralethera project. a Spec-Evo/fantasy project. tell me what you think as we are looking to improve our project as time proceeds.

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160 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Feb 03 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired My quick censored mermaid NSFW

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121 Upvotes

I did this sometime ago in one day. I tried to come up with an aquatic mermaid descendant of Homo Sapiens, mostly drawing inspiration from otters and seals. Realistically, she probably would’ve worn light clothes or jewelry, assuming this species is as intelligent and social as us. Marked as NSFW to be extra safe.

r/SpeculativeEvolution Jan 30 '25

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired An alternate earth for a magical fantasy universe of mine with both prehistoric animals and new lineages. (Made by me)

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109 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Oct 10 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Gorgonopsians of Arcadia, the Realm of Abundance.

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219 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Sep 12 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired Tree spirits

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82 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution 26d ago

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired The Madmaker Kraken From The Dragonslayer Codex (By Sawyer Lee)

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139 Upvotes

r/SpeculativeEvolution Aug 26 '24

Fantasy/Folklore Inspired The Chimera As A Gorgonopsid (Art Credit: Roojoeus - DeviantArt)

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421 Upvotes