Awww, such a cute and cool, yet fierce "carnivorous marsupial"...
Yeah, it does look kangaroo-ish, but a pretty awesome kangaroo :D
Maybe a bit o' a sabre-toothed cat?

Thank you ^^ And perhaps haha, or perhaps Muntjac deer in there.

Looks like there's some sabertooth tiger in there too. And roadrunner maybe? Or some kind of racing lizard? Definitely a fast-moving creature, judging by the super streamlined shape and the size and positioning of the legs.

/smartness

On the other hand, it looks cool. I would love to see one of those things just running around.

Thanking you ^^ And haha yesss I'd love to see some of these hopping around

looks very cool! awesome^^

Thanks!

Wow, I really like this. Love the one ear thingy on it's head. Does it look the same on both sides?

Thanks, and yes it does. Pretty much its like two ears have been completely fused on the insides, so there are still two outwards facing "cups" to the ears, they just have limited movement.

Ah, fair enough. It's a pretty cool idea, never seen it done before :D

Well if it's kangaroo based, why not go with the Thylacosmilus instead of the sabre-toothed cat? Plus, the floof on the tail tip kind of reminded me of kowaris or phascogales. There are quite a number of small marsupial carnivores, people don't seem to know about the rest of the dasyurids aside from the Tassie devil. Oh, and what about Thylacoleo, a bit closer relative to kangaroos than the others I mentioned, don't forget about that guy.

Well spotted, the tail floof was inspired by the Brush tailed phascogales, they are one of my fave little critters (I call them Australia's squirrels haha) I actually have a character of one, I need to draw him again XD
As for the saber teeth I am not sure haha, it was really just an afterthought cause I thought they looked fun.

That is purely adorable! I want one =3

A bit strange but AWESOME! Looks cuddly :P

Hehe I like how she's kinda smiling smugly as she's hopping along, like either she just fucked someone up, or she's about to.

Everything you draw I imagine it being made into an SL av now. YOUR FAULT.

The Thylacine thing makes me sad :C Sad at how humans keep fucking killing off everything. *foams at the mouth*

XD; I apologize, but frankly, humans haven't killed off very many species at all. A few birds here, a marsupial there. We've done nothing large in the whole scheme of things. We only started killing off species a couple hundred years ago, and extinctions tend to take longer than that.

...Believe what you want. You're dead wrong.

Telling a paleontologist he's wrong on the subject of extinction is like telling Napoleon he doesn't know how to lead men into battle. :3

While in the grand scheme of things we have not driven a hugely significant populous of creatures off the face of the planet just yet. We have indeed unbalanced the ecosystems that we try and shape to our lifestyles quiet dramatically. Hundreds of bird species have been wiped off numerous islands and continents in the span of say, 50- 100 years alone (and to understand the gravity of that. That is whole life lines lost to time. In the span of only one human's lifetime.), insect species, mammals, marsupials, fish species, not to mention fauna and flora.
You also pinned a very significant point as to why people are worried about this, and seek to try and find ways to prevent it in the future so we do not destroy the ecosystems we have unbalanced so badly already (not only killing these species is the cause, factors like habitat loss, not to mention introduced species has utterly messed up whole countries. I should know, I see it daily living in Australia. I see more pest species of birds and mammals and plants than I do the countries natural inhabitants.)
You pointed out a very good point. Extinctions usually take allot longer than the dramatically fast decline of allot of species we see vanishing today. Extinction is usually a extremely slow progress, but humans have been aiding this at an insane rate.
I can understand peoples anger at this, That we as a species that believe ourselves to be superior, and more intelligent and know what we are doing, should know better.
I do however also understand the sentiment that in the grand scale of things, it wont affect the planet too much. Life will go on, but I find it rather sad that one species that is smart enough to know the damage they are doing, would sit back and let others vanish under their own doing. Just because, in the grand scheme of things they are only wiping out a small percentage.

I can understand why people would be upset, but it irks me. I'm a paleontologist by study, and I know the subject of Extinction like Napoleon knows warfare or Oprah knows giving away free cars. I've heard various things tossed around like facts, such as "Humans killed off the Holocene Megafauna", and I know that's not true because humans coexisted with the Megafauna in Europe and Asia for a long time with no change in the population density of the Megafauna, and then they just all disappear due to climactic change.

To be fair, the modern extinctions aren't entirely the fault of humanity either. We did speed up the process of climate change, and we did cause several extinctions due to introduction of invasive species. I will grant that.

However, the planet has been warming for the past several thousand years, and things literally go extinct all the time. 99% of all life ever to have existed on the Earth was extinct before humans even evolved, let alone figured out how to make the internal combustion engine.

The study of paleontology is full of speculation and guesswork itself, and I highly doubt it makes one person a complete expert one what drives species extinct completely especially the ones that have been extinct for thousands of years (Though I do love paleontology don’t get me wrong, I had a avid interest in it in school.)
But with modern extinctions, I am not really focusing just on climate change (though it’s a large factor.) But more the fact of overpopulation of us as a species, and the fauna and flora we have driven that way as a cause.
And whether it irks you or not, at least some people care enough to actively try and help change the course of the futures we have started for some species because we have finally learnt from our mistakes, rather than just sit back and watch, and say its not entirely our fault X3 That’s why wildlife funds exist, and why some people try their hardest to help the species that are on the brink of extinction because of us (the Bilby is a great example, I actively help whenever I can, be it from cash donations or active help on the field. You cant tell me that their decline is mainly naturally environmental, when the reason is due to us clearing away the small pockets of land they live on, and the over hunting of them by un-natural predators that we brought into this country.) to just shrug ones shoulders and say its no matter because animals have been always going extinct, that’s child like mentality right there.

I know, I know, no science is exact. That's why we're still learning.

I've always heard we weren't overpopulating as a species, we were just not using the resources we have in the most friendly of ways. I've read the maximum capacity for humans on Earth was about 9 to 10 billion, if the resources are used and distributed wisely.

Well, extinction isn't exactly something to raise hackles about most of the time. If one species that doesn't support a whole ecosystem goes extinct, that's not anything to lose sleep over. Now, if it was, say, the extinction of a species of plant that supplied 30 percent of the food intake for an entire ecosystem, THAT is something to freak out about (Which is why I'm against heavy deforestation).

Your are only taking it from a scientific point of view, taking no note of morals, or compassion. So I think we shall just agree to disagree here. :)

I have a habit of doing that. XD;

That animal looks awesome :3
Cool design BD

It's a killer kangaroo! Good thing they went extinct. 83

I wanna hug eet o-o

is tat gunna be a SL avatar?

if so

i would buy it

This looks awesome toki. I love the creavite design to it.
It looks so devilish and cute at the same time. Love
those pointy ears. ^^

lolol, I thought CATRAPTORBUNNY when I saw it. XD

D: I heart this creature. Has exactly the right features.

One of those things that causes mixed feeling, so fluffy you want to snuggle it but those big pointy teath. o.o'

Potential future avatar? >.>' You're original designs are, well, so very original.

really fucking cool concept man :3

So... I have a question.

The ears are fused together - and while that's an interesting idea - i feel like there are some serious "adaption/evolutional" problems with that. The rotation of the ears is a huge factor is juding sound. The fact that humans can't is a huge detriment to be honest.

So, why the fused ears? Just wondering.


Other than that, I think the design is really awesome and well done (even the fused ears, lol). I love the proportions on the body as well. Unique and definitely one of the better creature designs I've seen. Good job.

Fused ears were purely a aesthetic move. But from a scientific standpoint, I guess the ears would work in the same way as owls with their elongated feathers that "act" as ears. While she can not move her ears very well (apart from folding them flat to her neck to block out wind), their large surface either side, and the curvature would help gather sound more than say a bird would. But her ear's are very bird like on the actual head.
She's a pretty primal sorta beastie, so I would say she swings her head around a bit to hear around her surroundings in more depth if she needed to, apposed to moving her ears.

Very very cool.

Thanks for responding!