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Batty for bats!
15 years ago
Listening to my Scientific American podcast and they mentioned bats at the beginning!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/p.....batty-08-11-26
So I have been going through the site checking out their neat bat articles.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/s.....;submit=submit
Bat evolution really IS fascinating! I'm all about bats right now!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2...../bat.evolution
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a.....tory-and-world
After all this research I found out about the oldest found bat: Onychonycteris finneyi
It had a LONG TAIL! I have been unhappy with Neryssa's fluffy little tail, since I also don't like the hairless little hamsterlike tails bats actually have. I couldn't in good conscience give my bat butt a long tail with no real basis for it.
So 'Ryssa isn't a brown/vampire/fruit bat... she's a Onychonycteris finneyi. A "Clawed Bat".
It works well, since I do also have an OC that is an archaeopteryx. Funny, I seem drawn to intermediate fossils. ;)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/p.....batty-08-11-26
So I have been going through the site checking out their neat bat articles.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/s.....;submit=submit
Bat evolution really IS fascinating! I'm all about bats right now!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2...../bat.evolution
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a.....tory-and-world
After all this research I found out about the oldest found bat: Onychonycteris finneyi
It had a LONG TAIL! I have been unhappy with Neryssa's fluffy little tail, since I also don't like the hairless little hamsterlike tails bats actually have. I couldn't in good conscience give my bat butt a long tail with no real basis for it.
So 'Ryssa isn't a brown/vampire/fruit bat... she's a Onychonycteris finneyi. A "Clawed Bat".
It works well, since I do also have an OC that is an archaeopteryx. Funny, I seem drawn to intermediate fossils. ;)
Spooky?
Os - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3429022/
Roo - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3429982/
Mine - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3429568/
And thanks for the bat art links!!! I love me sum bats!
Friend of mine has a couple of bat chars that I've been getting commissions and the like done of.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/576831
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3413284
Admittedly not the same style as yours, but I think she turned out cute. :D
This is the kind of stuff that makes me nuts, I love this shit.
If I wasn't an animator, I think I'd have been a biologist!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3410075
My batty also has a long tail, but I blame the dragon influence :p
But then again he's a combination of two species of bat
Three cheers for bats with long tails!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnF1ioaBr4