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Dinalfos5 — BoSI- Skull Island Saber tooth
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Another of my Beasts of Skull Island creations, suggested by of some of my fictitious beasts that live on Skull Island as depicted in Peter Jackson's King Kong. This is one of the Skull Island Saber Toothed Cat, a large surviving member of the Saber Toothed cat family.Another feral animal, like most of the terrestrial mammals of the island, the Skull Island Saber Toothed Cats were likely the descendants of animals brought over by the ancient humans of Skull Island sometime during the ice age, and like the gaurs, apes and bears, have made the best of living on the hostile island home, competing and surviving against the reptilian predators of the island. Likely descended from Asian relatives of the North American Smilodon, the Skull Island Saber tooth is a particularly large feline, and is around the size of a brown bear, being larger then the Smilodon and even larger then the Siberian Tiger. Weather this is because it was descended from a particularly large saber toothed cat, or if it suffered from the same size increase seen in the apes of the island is not yet known.
The Skull Island Saber Tooth possesses a tan coat of fur, with a brown mane around its neck and shoulders similar to an African Lion, but unlike lions, the brown coloration of its mane extends across its head and face as well. Like the Cave Bears of the Island, the Saber Tooth Cat has taken to living in the Highlands, so as to avoid competition with the larger dinosaurs of the grasslands. Unlike the bears, these felines have to rely on a mostly carnivorous diet, thus have to constantly hunt the reptiles of the highlands.
For reference, this version of the Skull Island Saber Toothed Cat was based off of Chondar, a cat from Kong: the Animated Series, something I've taken some inspiration from when designing my additions to Skull Island.
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Could you possibly please do a Skull Island giant crocodile
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I could, but I don't do requests for strangers, but I could do an Art Trade. If you're willing to make arrangements for that, I'll see what I can do.
A giant Crocodile for Skull Island makes sense, as it could either be a Cretaceous relict species similar to Deinosuchus (though that was closer to alligators than crocodiles), or perhaps just a variation of Saltwater Crocodile or similar modern crocodile that evolved to large size in isolation on Skull Island.
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First of all, I'm new to Deviantart and I'm trying to make friends. Please don't think of me as a stranger. I like your artwork.
Second, I created an underground world called Zarinia. I have many creatures to make for it. Please check it out. Here's what I'll do. You can tell me to draw a creature for you(I'm a great drawer). Just tell me what creature you want that would live on either skull island or Zarinia(created by me) and in exchange you can draw a giant crocodile.
Third, I'm not thinking of something related to Deinosuchus. I'm thinking of a descendant of Sarcosuchus. Take my creature for example. I created a fictional giant crocodile called Durosuchus (Stiff Croc) that is a descendant of both Deinosuchus and Sarcosuchus but was much bigger. Just check out my page to see it. Can you create something like that and have it be a descendant but a close relative of the Nile or Saltwater croc. I'd appreciate it. I'm just asking.
P.S. if you like my creatures, please comment or give me a request on what else to draw.
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Okay, fair enough, but someone I've just met is still a stranger. I have to have gotten to know you for a while before I can consider you a friend. You can't just ask "Can we be friends" as soon as we meet and expect it to be so. You can try to be my friend, but it will take time and effort.
I've looked at your art, and the art itself is fairly decent. More than worthy of doing an art trade with. When I think of something, I'll let you know what I want.
If you are thinking of something like Sarcosuchus, that's a little harder for me to get around. Sarchosuchus was related to no living Crocodilian, and was a more ancestral form, unlike Deinosuchus which was closer to Alligators than to Crocodiles. Another problem was Geography. Sarchosuchus lived in the Early Cretaceous in Northern Africa.
Many of Skull Islands inhabitants came from Asia or North America, and thus, Sarcosuchus couldn't have made it to Skull Island in the same way Tyrannosaurs and Ceratopsians could.
And hearing again about your Durosuchus, proves to me you know little about Evolution. I'm not judging, you might be young, you might be misinformed, but some of your facts about it are impossible.
It's impossible to be descended from both Sarcosuchus and Dienosuchus because Deinosuchus was not a descendant of Sarcosuchus. Sarchosuchus was not a true Crocodillian, not part of Eusuchia, which includes all modern crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials. Deinosuchus on the other hand, was a true relative of the alligator, and was closer to modern alligators and caimans than they are to crocodiles or gharials.
Looking at your page, you also say that it is decended from Salt Water crocodiles, which, again, is a 3rd creature that is not descended from either Sarchosuchus or Deinonsuchus.
Now, you are welcome to ignore all this when working on your own lost underworld. Feel free to ignore all the advice I am giving you, but when you are asking me for something involving my own version of Skull Island, I have my own rules I follow and will not deviate from even when asked. That put, something on my Skull Island cannot be the descendant of both Sacosuchus or Deinosuchus, and also a Salt Water or Nile Crocodile. Evolution just didn't work like that, at least as we understand it now.
Now, I can either do for you
1) Something related to Sarcosuchus, but not descended from it directly, from outside of Eusuchia, and thus not a true Crocodilian. It would have had many traits not common with living crocodiles. It would have been descended from North American or Asian relatives of Sarcosuchus that migrated and survived on Skull Island. Despite going extinct before the end of the Cretaceous, Skull Island had many other relict species that went extinct well before the end of the Cretaceous, like Stegosaurs.
2) A relative of Deinonsuchus, that came alongside Tyannosaurus and other late Cretaceous North American dinosaurs to live on Skull Island. Again, this is more of an alligator than a crocodile.
3) A relative of the Salt Water Crocodile that swam from Australia and made its own home on Skull Island well into the Cenozoic, becoming subject to Island gigantism, perhaps in response to the hostile environment of Skull Island.
I won't be doing some bizarre, illogical creature with a linage that couldn't possibly exist in nature.
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Maybe you could do a Skull Island Tiger, possibly because Skull Island is said to be far from the west coast of Sumatra and Sumatra has tigers.
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Hmm, maybe. It will be a while before my Scanner works,so I'll put it on a to do list once it gets working. I mean, I can always draw it right now, but you won't get to see it for a while. But I can completely see a Tiger getting there in the same manner the Rhinos would, by being shipped there by the Island's Ancients. However, I do not think they would get there naturally, as Skull Island has been separated from Indonesia, and indeed the rest of the world, since the Mesozoic, so it's unlikely that such animals could migrate there naturally.
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