My Favorite Creatures from Snaiad

These are my favorite creatures from the exobiological project known as Snaiad. I do not own the rights to these creatures, they belong to Nemo Ramjet.

If you want to learn more about Snaiad, go here:
http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html
My favorite out of all of these is the Forest Kahydron.



Music is from Harry Potter.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• snaiad
• exobiology
• atsrobiology
• exobiological
• astrobiological
• xenobiology
• xenobiological
• alien
• aliens
• planet
• planets
• darwin IV

[gustjorodedheo]

I've a problem with people postulating really outlandish forms when convergent evolution has been shown to occur on earth, e.g., Australian marsupials. Given an earthlike planet, doesn't it make sense to assume earthlike evolutionary pressures on creature forms? Sure they can be different, but that seems a bit much. BTW, what is with the two heads on most of those??

[Kingcobrasaurus]

@gustjorodedheo True. I'll be sure to tell that to anybody who says that human-like aliens can't exist.

[FlishonyanKing]

they look like mutated birds and reptiles...

[Kingcobrasaurus]

That's what I thought when I first saw them. :D

taniwha was the one who first posted it at ZTV over a year ago.

[GamersMinion]

@Kingcobrasaurus so Nemo Ramjet believe these are the creatures on other planets?

[Kingcobrasaurus]

No, this is just speculation. Just like the Darwin IV, Darcia, Martus, etc projects, it's just guessing what aliens would look like. An alien could look like anything, and there's only a 1% chance that it would look EXACTLY like one of these creatures. They're just made-up.

[VanKlaunch]

@gustjorodedheo Sure convergent evolution produces separate creatures which seem somewhat similar, such as wolves, cougars, and the extinct Tasmanian tiger, but know that these are all closely related (they're all mammals) and are only separated by a few million years. Let's examine something more unrelated, such as a bird and a bat; same function, very different appearance. Look at a squid and a fish, same thing. On an ET planet, it's not necessary they be tetrapods.

[stuchly1]

@FIColony everything is relative. what may seem ridiculous to you can be perfectly fit for the animal's environment. 99% of species on earth has gone extinct, because they were no longer "fit", but they were all fit for a period of time. Look at trilobites! They survived so many mass extinction, yet they had esophagus going through their brain and a stomach in their head! What is more ridiculous than that? And they were one of the most successful and diverse group of animals to ever live!

[stuchly1]

@gustjorodedheo two "heads" - there is a feeding "head" that can retract into the chest and the thing you really think is a "head" just protects genitals. If you look into the physiology of these animals closely, they are nothing like anything on earth, but they sometimes resemble earth animals on the outside, because, as you said, convergence works here too, and similar conditions might well lead to similar result. ;-)

[MaxterandKiwiKing]

1:51 Picozoans are my favorite Snaiad creatures.

[FIColony]

Half of that animals - creatures cant eaven exist, they body form is ridiculus, they cant functionate properly

[TheStegosaurs]

Creature from 1:04-1:05 has Nothosaurus's jaw

[MaxterandKiwiKing]

Amazing pictures.