Speculative biology

The Birrin are an egg laying species, and clutches typically contain 3 or 4 eggs which hatch within days of each other to reveal small, hungry and fuzzy... Baby Birrin

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Description Be Watchful. A teaser for my upcoming collaboration with the great Simon Roy ( [link] ) I know I am in a sort of hiatus lately. But have no worries. All of it is for a good reason.

The Eosapien is a large, social, adroit, omnivorous, highly intelligent floater from the planet of Darwin IV. It is the most intelligent life form on the whole planet. This huge creature can float absolutely motionless and move in just about any direction, similar to Earth's dragonflies and hummingbirds. These creatures had been stalking the First Darwinian Expediton members for a while but were finally observed by Barlowe near the Amoebic Sea in the morning on March 14, 2361, a fortnight…

A small creature that lives hidden among the dune scrub on the planet chriirah. Part of the birrin book project. Inspired by the giant grasshoppers I remember from my youth. They would snap up out of their hiding places and flash their wings before

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A bunch of creature designs I did for a specific biome that required them to be semiaquatic and adapted to life on land.