Chimarion - A speculative evolution communty project about chimeras

@doomlightning just so you know and don’t count it twice or something, I’m resubmitting the Skrekk here so that all of my submissions are in one place. Here are the shadowed seven.

The Shadowed Seven
Skrekk

Skrekk

Chimeric Parts: Flying Fox + Dragon Millipede + Electric Eel + Giant Cuttlefish

Description: A stealthy, terrifyingly deadly hunter, it flies through the night skies at incredible speeds, perfectly silent. An aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial hunter, able to breathe with both gills and lungs, each of its many sharp legs is tipped in claws and edged with fins that aid it in swimming, as does the large, joined caudal, anal, and dorsal fin. It is covered in heavy armor, and can be observed crawling through the jungle canopy, searching for fruits to munch on or prey to hunt, utilizing it’s deadly breath attack of hydrogen cyanide or its ability to launch deadly bolts of lightning. When not outright engaging in battle, the maneuverable skin atop its armored carapace changes shape and color depending on its environment, making it almost entirely invisible. When ambushing something, it can launch coiled tentacles from its mouth to strike at lightning speeds. It is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long, and has a wingspan of about 12 feet (3.66 meters).

Diet: Fruits and a variety of fauna.

Size: 8 foot (2.5 meter) length and 12 foot (3.66 meter) wingspan

Environment: Jungles, usually tropical but occasionally subtropical, both in the canopy and the waterways, though they can rarely be seen on the ground.

Other: Armored Carapace beneath skin, fins and claws on its many sharp legs, gills and lungs, Entirely silent flight, skin changes color/texture, grappling tentacles when close enough. Also utilizes electric shocks and clouds of hydrogen cyanide.

Himmelgiganten

Himmelgiganten

Chimeric Parts: Surinam Toad + Hatzegopteryx + Swordfish + Giant Bamboo

Description: These titans of the skies are among the largest creatures of their time, and perhaps some of the oddest. The gargantuan female travels with a harem of males, usually around ten, whom cling to the undersides of their mates wings or hang on to their mates long, bamboo-like tails. They have an ever-present mating season, and after fertilizing the eggs the males will carry them up to the females back and use a specialized foam to lock them in place, where the females skin will rapidly grow over them. The young then photosynthesize there, on their mothers back, underneath a thin layer of skin, slowly storing energy, as the mother uses the remaining surface area of her body and wings to photosynthesize for herself.

Upon encountering potential prey, males will actively hunt and herd prey, using their sharp snouts like swords and spears in combination with their claws and jaws to grapple with prey if necessary, herding and gathering it for the female as they consume some for themselves. Both sexes also retain their gills, and males will sometimes dive beneath the surface of the waves to hunt for food.

Occasionally, if being hunted by the rare predator or stumbling upon a particularly large group of prey, the more mature younglings will burst out of their mothers back by the thousands, causing surprisingly minimal damage to the mother during this process, and swarm the skies like clouds of animated daggers, spearing into and through opponents with their razor sharp snouts like swarms of airborne piranhas. After their feeding frenzy, they will return to their mothers back, where they will once again have skin grow over them and they photosynthesize in a torpor like state until they are almost mature. This process can take upwards of 100 years, which is but a fraction of a fully grown adults lifespan.

When they have almost matured, individuals will leave one by one, females to fly the skies and males in search of different females, recognizing their siblings by scent. Upon leaving their mother, their stored up energy allows them to rapidly grow into their adult sizes, similar to how bamboo stores its energy in its rhizomes.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Opportunistic Omnivory

Size: Females can grow up to 150 feet long, with a wingspan of 300 feet. Males are a much more modest 15 feet long, with a wingspan of only 30 feet. Young Himmelgiganten are significantly smaller than even this, usually only 3 inches long with a 6 inch wingspan.

Environment: All Tropical Skies, and occasionally Subtropical ones

Other: Skin-brooding, Youngling Swarming, Male Hanging, long bamboo-tails, powerfully built clawed legs (rarely used by females), Sword-snout, gills and lungs

Søtmorder

Søtmorder

Chimeric Parts: Therizinosaurus + Hairy Frog + North American Porcupine + Capybara

Description: Appearing to be giant, capybara like creatures with shaggy fur and long, fluffy tails, these animals are chill to hang out with, and will do so with anyone and anything. Attack any of them, however, and all nearby will show you just how deadly they can be. From underneath their abundant fur, long, powerful hind legs will support this creatures bipedal gait, and well built forearms can grasp at opponents. When feeling particularly threatened, they will cause various parts of their bodies to snap, pushing giant claws out of their forelimbs and becoming covered in a thick coat of bony, barbed quills, injuries which are healed incredibly quickly and body parts that can be put back into place with barely a thought.

Diet: Low-growing Flora, both terrestrial and aquatic

Size: Normally appears around 15 feet long, but is really around 35 feet long, unfolding itself when it is entering combat.

Environment: Tropical Rainforest

Other: Giant Retractable Claws, Webbed Feet, Powerful Legs (Jumping), Retractable Quills, soft fur, usually gentle demeanor

Dødshorden

Dødshorden

Chimeric Parts: Snapdragon + Zombie-ant Fungus + Aye aye + Giant Sequoia

Description: A Temperate to subpolar tree, they usually appear in the shape of enormous evergreen trees, with many colorful, hanging blossoms of snapdragons. This creates almost magical, incredibly vividly colored forests, with trees standing upwards of 350 feet tall. In the height of spring and summer, their is nowhere more beautiful, attracting pollinators for hundreds of miles around and making the woodlands be incredibly dense centers of life.

However, the same cannot be said the other half of the year. In a cruel twist of fate, beauty is turned into horrific monstrosities by necessity. The large boughs of the tree are now decorated in withered flowers, appearing as chains of primate like skulls as if mocking the woodlands former glory. As the cold of winter gets closer and closer, these skulls will start to shift, becoming 2 foot tall, oddly proportioned lemur like skeletons, with five long, narrow, and clawed digits. The animated husks of these dead blossoms serve the forests they are connected to, killing creatures far and wide and bringing them back to lay at the roots of their home tree, where they are consumed one by one to provide the tree with enough energy to make it to spring.

As the warmth sets in, the animated husks slowly run out of their own energy, dying and returning to the soil as their birth trees last meal before the coming season of beauty and prosperity. New trees can also be made by being carried and cared for by blossom husks, but are more often made via asexual reproduction through the roots.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Carnivory/Scavenging/Decomposing

Size: Tree bodies of upwards of 350 feet, Blossom Husks of around 2 feet tall.

Environment: Temperate and Subpolar Woodlands and Rainforests

Other: Blossom Husks, Incredible colors, Sweet Nectar, Pollen with an enchanting smell, loss of leaves and petals in winter

Gåpest

Gåpest

Chimeric Parts: Geography Cone Snail + Sandbox Tree + Platypus + Walking Palm

Description: These fairly large trees are covered in tubular, thorn-like protrusions, which are partially hollow and filled with an intense mix of Geography Cone Snail Venom, Platypus Venom, and the Poisonous Sap of the Sandbox Tree. Utilizing electroreceptors all up and down the trunk of the tree, the tree can recognize when a critter is passing nearby and then launch their thorns at prey at upwards of 160 miles per hour. The trees large, elevated root system with then drag the large tree over the carcass as quickly as possible (minimal risk of tree toppling) to consume it as it continues to build up its toxins. It’s walking roots also allow it to search for locations with the most optimal amount of sunlight.

These trees are also easily able to thrive in semi-aquatic environments, and have had their bark reinforced with shell and bone material.

It’s seeds are largely similar to that of the Sandbox Tree, but significantly more poisonous and durable, surrounded by shell and bone and able to extract air from water as they grow if necessary. These seeds can be launched upwards of 350 feet from the parent tree during their initial explosion, and then early walking roots can carry the tree even farther as the seedling hunts for prey and an optimal area to set down its first real roots in the soil, locking it into that place until it matures enough for its roots to be fully developed and able to carry its adult weight against gravity.

Diet: Photosynthesis, Carnivory, Scavenging

Size: Upwards of 200 meters tall

Environment: Tropical and Subtropical Rainforests

Other: Exploding Fruits, Launching Poison Thorns, Intense Poison belgiumtail, Electroreception, Walking Roots, can be semi aquatic, shell and bone reinforced bark

Hulekjeve

Hulekjeve

Chimeric Parts: Bowhead Whale + Glaucus Atlanticus + Titanoboa + Kryptoglanis shajii (Toothy Cave Catfish)

Description: These long, powerfully built creatures are able to survive in almost any subterranean environment, and tend to live in the deep caves while hunting in shallower caves and the area around them. It’s jaw is almost 25 feet long, and on top of that can be unhinged to swallow much larger prey if necessary. Their eyes appear to be on their bottom jaw, and they are pattered with a variety of deep blues, greys, blacks, and whites. They can breathe underwater, both in freshwater and saltwater, as well as on land, and can thrive beneath thick ice sheets with their heavy blubber and hot deserts by producing a cooling slime. If struck by poison, they simply add that poison to their own deadly mucus sting, instead of being affected by it.

Between meals, these creatures tend to go into a deep torpor, not using any energy until they need to hunt for their next meal. They can spend these on any surface by binding themselves their with mucus, and have been known to bind themselves to the ceiling in order to ambush unsuspecting prey beneath them the moment they awake if such an opportunity arises.

Young of this species tend to stick to shallow caves in more temperate, subtropical, and tropical climates, venturing out to devour smaller prey items as they grow. They are generally much more active than their adult counterparts.

Diet: Carnivore - Any and all fauna that wander into/near its cave

Size: Upwards of 80 feet long as an adult

Environment: Any and all caves worldwide

Other: Heavily muscled, Incredibly large mouth with thousands of needle-sharp teeth, ability to unhinge jaw, incredibly toxic mucus, gills and lungs, ability to enter torpor until next meal, climbing, swimming, high mucus production, Eye appears to be on lower jaw but it actually just lives upside down, take poison and make their own.

Jerndrage

Jerndrage

Chimeric Parts: Giant Siphonophore + Scaly Foot Snail + Giant Tube Worm + Black Dragonfish

Description: Ethereal beauties of the deep sea, these magnificent creatures behind their lives as tiny planktonic creatures with tough shells and sleek fins, just large enough to feed off of smaller zooplankton, phytoplankton, and marine snow with their tiny tentacles and suction mouths. They tend to congregate in the Twilight Zone, rising up the water column at night en mass.

Once they mature, these creatures come together and fuse to form one of the most magnificent sights in the deep sea. A long, thin body, reinforced with spikes of shell, shards of bone, and plates of metal. From between the gaps in this armor, tentacles weave and flow, highlighting each black metal plate with a deep crimson glow. Near the front end of this organism, a large air bladder is shielded under armor just behind a large head, with rows of clear, razor sharp teeth filling the mouth and lining either side of the back like spines. It’s eyes, massive orbs of deep crimson set back into its elongated skull, stare out at the pitiful prey lured in by the glowing blue whiskers sprouting by the dozens near its head and trailing the length of the creature, passing by the sharp metal crown and large fins just behind the head, as well as the two rows of giant tube worms and their tubes sprouting from the creatures back.

Just bulky enough to be menacing, just beautiful enough to be spooky. A truly ethereal being.

Diet: Chemosynthetic Bacteria (of multiple varieties), filter feeding, carnivory, Marine Snow

Size: Upwards of 160 feet long

Environment: Deep Sea

Other: Glowing Tentacles/feelers, Air Bladder, Large Mouth, Invisible Fangs, metal Armor, Tube Worms tubes down back, giant lures, red lights, large eyes, pitch black skin and armor, structure reinforced by bone, shell, and metal, big fins, some bulk but not enough to be incredibly noticeable


I think they meant that if this was a real life creature they wouldn’t sleep at night . Not sure though

No I should be fine, think I fixed that

Edit:

You also seem to have misspelled Willow’s name as Willio on the Google Site

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