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Homo sapiens, GSP Styleby ~nemo-ramjet

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The late Holocene running predator "Homo sapiens."

Some specimens of this animal were found with trace fossils of hair near its head. Its restoration with similar integument near its arms here is tentative.

This animal shared its habitat with the vicious, sickle-clawed, pack-hunting "Cat," the long-necked "Horse," and the sail-backed "Cow."

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~thediremoose 1 day ago

Meanwhile, the "Dog," although often considered an active predator due to its large teeth and long legs, must really have been a scavenger due to the lack of sharp claws. Furthermore, its large olfactory lobe clearly indicates it was adapted for tracking down carcasses. Its larger size compared to a cat was obviously for scaring packs of cats away from their kills.

After all, we know cats had to have been pack hunters due to evidence from the larger but closely-related "Lion."

~bigfootRULES 1 day ago Student Writer

there are some theories stating that the humans were a advanced civilization that had wiped themselves out by nuclear war, but scientists have dismissed them as stories made by paranoid crackpots.

~Rexyf Apr 3, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Was just thinking, could you imagine how future paleontologists would interprit an Ant-Eater? "Clearly some manner of nectar feeding herbivore, moving about from flower to flower like a massive butterfly, using its claws for self-defence."

~tonerebellion Mar 5, 2013 New member

If you ever color this specimen, I suggest using vivid, bright colors in elaborate patterns (of red, green, yellow and orange, for example) . Anatomical studies have shown that members of this genus had well developed eyes, as well as the accompanying areas corresponding to vision in the brain, but a comparatively poorly developed sense of smell, unlike related genera of mammals. Although speculative, it is entirely possible that these animals would actually have been able to distinguish a variety of colors, and if so, they would likely have possessed vivid coloration to facilitate social interactions - for example, for mating purposes and intra-species recognition (which is doubly plausible considering that they probably could not use scent for this purpose, owing to their relatively underdeveloped olfactory sense). Otherwise, I fully endorse this restoration and expect to be seeing full, life sized reconstructions mounted in our finest museums in the near future, so that all may admire these magnificent creatures as they must have looked like while they still roamed this world!

~ookaookaooka Feb 8, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

"Sail-backed cow" lol

~Irkenarmada1 Jan 2, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

The late Holocene is distinguished from other time periods by the strange sedimentary materials and the large number of extinctions. It is unknown how many life forms became extinct during this time. Homo sapiens itself has been proposed as having a central role in these peculiarities, but it is now commonly believed that this is improbable.

~Irkenarmada1 Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Great work.

~Preradkor Dec 3, 2012

I just imagined how strange would look reconstruction based on skeleton of earth vertebrate (like human) made by aliens with external skeleton, who had never seen any creature with internal bones. Tey would probably try to place most of bones outside body. That would be eerie. Maybe it is also good idea to draw?

~SimKoning Jul 31, 2012

I'm not sure if this is a fair criticism. Mammals typically have considerably more flesh over their heads and the musculature in the legs is quite different. If you look at a naked bird, you'll see that they typically do in fact have the "shrink wrapped" look seen in GSP's restorations. The lack of a protruding calcaneus and generally different muscle shape gives bird legs a "drumstick" look, with little more than tendons, skin and bone on the lower legs and feet. Greg Paul was putting feathers on dinosaurs, even the ornithischians (including baby hadrosaurids), so I'm not sure why this restoration has so little hair.

It would be more fair to guess how a distant future alien paleoartist might reconstruct a human by using extant mammal species as a reference. I would bet that it would be constructed without claws, lots of hair, lips, outer ears that might look too pointed or long and possibly a flat, ape like nose. I think it would look closer to us than what you depicted here.

~nemo-ramjet Aug 6, 2012

I agree with your objections - this picture is intended as a critique of sparse palaeoreconstructions in general rather than an attack on GSP.

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