just me, walking on my jello lakes, enjoying my low gravity planet
emperor sea strider, from the Alien Planet special on Discovery
Read the book, if you haven’t already. Top notch stuff.
Expedition by Wayne Barlowe.
I love Barlowe's designs so much! This is what the aliens on Pandora could've looked like. Instead they went with six legged monkeys and horses. So much wasted potential in that movie. Sad!
Just read both wiki pages and now I have just one remaining question: How do they fuck? They travel in mated pairs so I assume it's sexual reproduction, but all the depictions have a phallus that looks very rigid and faces backwards. Don't tell me they penetrate their mouth-feet because those are lined with thousands of teeth
Why can't a reproductive organ be lined with thousands of teeth?
Okay, point taken... phallus could be armored. I'm really just struck by how mechanically difficult it would be to use that particular penis. If you raise your foot-pussy enough for copulation I'm afraid you'd just fall over
I would bet that it uses all those little appendages in the front
I love Expedition, Barlowe's books are hard as fuck to find and so expensive but I couldn't stop myself from buying this. I would love to own his illustration of the Inferno but it's like $250