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A Headshot of a large predator from the Birrin world.

Upper eyestalks contain eyes and ears, lower contain eyes and sensory tentacles.

Most creatures related to the Birrin have 4 'lips' covering their jaws. However in this case the upper lip has evolved into a head shield which helps the creature push through dense forest. The blue membrane is used for display and can be retracted under a shield when not in use.

The animal hunts like a large heron, snatching smaller prey by shooting forward its long neck. It swallows most food whole, or by tearing it apart with its smaller inner jaws and toothed tongues.

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~palaeorigamipete Jan 19, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
are there eyes near the base of the lower tentacles? also, are the eyestalks retractable or do they stay like this all the time?
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:iconabiogenisis:
There are eyes at the ends of both eyestalks, and yep they are retractable, usually retracted when afraid or tackling prey.
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~palaeorigamipete Jan 20, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
so the circular shape near of the lower eyestalk isn't an eye? so it is the sheath to which it retracts? and I have noticed that some of the animals only have one thick eyestalk on the top and not two (for example the xenoraptor?), and I have seen the same on the older birrin sketches. is it just how time went and you gradually changed the basic anatomy a bit?
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:iconabiogenisis:
Yep, the circle is part of the eyestalks' protection.

And yes, those changes you have noticed over time are just part of the development progress. Now they all have two on top, two on bottom.
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~palaeorigamipete Jan 22, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for the answers, i know I've been spamming you a bit lately... :D
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:iconabiogenisis:
Spam is no bad thing :)
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:iconpalaeorigamipete:
~palaeorigamipete Jan 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
:lol: I sincerely hope you'll wrap your project in a book one day =)
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:iconabiogenisis:
As long as I am not hit by a bus or something, I will put a book out. Even if it takes a decade it will happen.
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:iconsenpenbanka:
This is awesome! Are you goning to do a picture of it's whole body?
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:iconabiogenisis:
Actually I do have a design, and will do a pic of them eventually :)
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