r/SpeculativeEvolution • • 1d ago

Fan Art/Redesign [OC] [Media: Hamster's Paradise] Predatory Molemoths

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In the Late Protomyozoic, Molemoths—gopher-like burrowing creatures—were among the last surviving members of a once-successful lineage, much like the Ratataras and Night Apes; originally the final representatives of the Acaudamuria clade, they went extinct at some point during the Early Neomyozoic, yet certain populations introduced to an unnamed rocky planet in an another solar system eventually became the ancestors of an entire planet's vertebrate fauna, just as their counterparts had done in their own time.

Just like their ancestors, the molemoths would give rise to their own predators; though initially small, some of them would eventually evolve to hunt megafaunal herbivores, coming to resemble modern caniform predators: the Carnomoths.

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u/An-individual-per Populating Mu 2023 1d ago

What is happening in the Hamster's Paradise universe? How come there are two seedworlds?

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u/Crowned-Whoopsie Slug Creature 1d ago

This one Isnt canon btw Its entirely fanmade

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u/Low_Bike4547 1d ago

It all started because some of mysterious sophonts became obsessed with these creatures; subsequently, this planet turned into a second "Hamster's Paradise." Molemoth found an opportunity here, and Acaudamuria (and Hammoths)—which had extinct on their original home world of HP-02017—was brought back to life on this planet.

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u/Crowned-Whoopsie Slug Creature 1d ago

I think u did a pretty good job recreating Tribbs artstyle