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In 1954, the Cold War threatened to escalate when nautical vessels of both sides were found destroyed beyond recognition or vanishing altogether. However, the reports of the few survivors of the attacks didn't match up with the initial assumption that these were undercover attacks, as all of them had described the vessels being attacked by some sort of gigantic creature, and indeed, a section tasked specifically to deal with those incidents had affirmed the survivors' reports: there was a vaguely crocodylian creature with a length of almost 300 metres roaming the oceans almost undetected.
Searching through historical accounts, it became clear that this creature dubbed as „Gojira“ by a Japanese soldier, who had described it as „a sort of whale with gorilla arms“, had been known throughout human history with a number of accounts mentioning large sea monsters. The creature finally became known to the general public in 2014 together with the Mutos when it attacked the male in Hawaii, then chased it down to San Francisco, killing both Mutos in a fight that left half of the city in shambles.
Such a life in secrecy despite the enormous size was only possible for the creature as Jiras have re-evolved gills and have a preference for the cold, lightless depths of the oceans' abyssal zone, where the low temperatures keep them from overheating easily. They orient themselves with a mixture of echolocation and electrolocation, using their massive electrical organs to maintain a field similar to electric fish. Aside from oxygen, the gills are also used to filter uranium from the sea water, which is usually enough to spend longer times submerged, but if a need for more radioactive material arises, Jiras would leave the sea and seek out areas with felsic, highly fractionated rocks where radioactive elements become enriched to eat the rocks or spend time in the proximity of river mouths that drain from such areas. Non-radioactive sustenance is taken up in the form of fish swarms that are filtered out of the water with gill reuses or whale carcasses that sink into the abyssal zone.
Possessing both gills and lungs, Jiras had to develop a number of adaptations to be able to switch between the systems. For once, they possess a bypass in their heart septum similar to crocodiles that allows them to reduce the bloodflow to their lungs, instead maintaining a fish-like circulatory system that pumps blood directly from the gills to the body without an extra system for the respiratory organs. Another feature is that the lungs and adjacent airsacs can be completely flooded with water and have a secondary function as hydrostatic organs. How exactly the gills were re-evolved is unknown; it is unusual that underneath each operculum there are up to five gill arches, implying that it wasn't just simple reactivation, but also multiplication of the organs, most likely to maintain a proper oxyggen supply for such a colossal creature.
An even stranger feature than the gills is the ability to generate plasma and exhale it as a weapon, an ability that was only recently discovered. The exact mechanism isn't known, it seems the large electrical organs that run along the back are able to generate a magnetic field powerful enough to turn air molecules into ions, as well as to manipulate the charged particles. A system of air-filled channels runs through the electrical organs, which partially extends into the dorsal plates in triangular loops, either to prevent overheating or to be used as a sort of display, as the plasma is able to shine through the channels.
The exact relation of Jiras to other known animals is not exactly known; a speculative skeletal drawing from the 18. century depicts it with mammalian features, older accounts described it as a fish and modern scientists put it as either a dinosaur or a crocodylian. The find of the Philippines skeleton allowed a closer examination, which revealed it to be an anapsid. There are also features regarding the teeth and vertebrae that are more labyrinthodont-like, leading to debate whether Jiras are anapsids with labyrinthodont features added by the chimera virus or the other way around. What is clear is that the species dates back to at least the Permian, as has been found out by re-examining ichnofossils that have been previously thought to be anorganic geological features.
Still, there is very little known about the species, as it seems to be functionally extinct with one elusive individual remaining. However, the oceans are vast and one cannot tell what else might be living down there...
And the last one for now. Calling the species „Jiras“ is something I took from the leaked script; since the individual names for the Mutos were taken from there, why not takin Godzilla's species name from there, too? Also, I take everything back I wrote about the mother longlegs and the mire squid being nightmares to draw. This fucker and his scales were the longest bullshit submission I have done so far, the fact I was displeased with the appearance of the limb scales most of the time and redrew them two or three times didn't help.
Changelog:
-Made him even fatter, for a more streamlined shape
-Added a tail fin and extended/added webs between fingers and toes
-Changed around the shape of some scales, making them based more on turtles than crocodiles
Searching through historical accounts, it became clear that this creature dubbed as „Gojira“ by a Japanese soldier, who had described it as „a sort of whale with gorilla arms“, had been known throughout human history with a number of accounts mentioning large sea monsters. The creature finally became known to the general public in 2014 together with the Mutos when it attacked the male in Hawaii, then chased it down to San Francisco, killing both Mutos in a fight that left half of the city in shambles.
Such a life in secrecy despite the enormous size was only possible for the creature as Jiras have re-evolved gills and have a preference for the cold, lightless depths of the oceans' abyssal zone, where the low temperatures keep them from overheating easily. They orient themselves with a mixture of echolocation and electrolocation, using their massive electrical organs to maintain a field similar to electric fish. Aside from oxygen, the gills are also used to filter uranium from the sea water, which is usually enough to spend longer times submerged, but if a need for more radioactive material arises, Jiras would leave the sea and seek out areas with felsic, highly fractionated rocks where radioactive elements become enriched to eat the rocks or spend time in the proximity of river mouths that drain from such areas. Non-radioactive sustenance is taken up in the form of fish swarms that are filtered out of the water with gill reuses or whale carcasses that sink into the abyssal zone.
Possessing both gills and lungs, Jiras had to develop a number of adaptations to be able to switch between the systems. For once, they possess a bypass in their heart septum similar to crocodiles that allows them to reduce the bloodflow to their lungs, instead maintaining a fish-like circulatory system that pumps blood directly from the gills to the body without an extra system for the respiratory organs. Another feature is that the lungs and adjacent airsacs can be completely flooded with water and have a secondary function as hydrostatic organs. How exactly the gills were re-evolved is unknown; it is unusual that underneath each operculum there are up to five gill arches, implying that it wasn't just simple reactivation, but also multiplication of the organs, most likely to maintain a proper oxyggen supply for such a colossal creature.
An even stranger feature than the gills is the ability to generate plasma and exhale it as a weapon, an ability that was only recently discovered. The exact mechanism isn't known, it seems the large electrical organs that run along the back are able to generate a magnetic field powerful enough to turn air molecules into ions, as well as to manipulate the charged particles. A system of air-filled channels runs through the electrical organs, which partially extends into the dorsal plates in triangular loops, either to prevent overheating or to be used as a sort of display, as the plasma is able to shine through the channels.
The exact relation of Jiras to other known animals is not exactly known; a speculative skeletal drawing from the 18. century depicts it with mammalian features, older accounts described it as a fish and modern scientists put it as either a dinosaur or a crocodylian. The find of the Philippines skeleton allowed a closer examination, which revealed it to be an anapsid. There are also features regarding the teeth and vertebrae that are more labyrinthodont-like, leading to debate whether Jiras are anapsids with labyrinthodont features added by the chimera virus or the other way around. What is clear is that the species dates back to at least the Permian, as has been found out by re-examining ichnofossils that have been previously thought to be anorganic geological features.
Still, there is very little known about the species, as it seems to be functionally extinct with one elusive individual remaining. However, the oceans are vast and one cannot tell what else might be living down there...
And the last one for now. Calling the species „Jiras“ is something I took from the leaked script; since the individual names for the Mutos were taken from there, why not takin Godzilla's species name from there, too? Also, I take everything back I wrote about the mother longlegs and the mire squid being nightmares to draw. This fucker and his scales were the longest bullshit submission I have done so far, the fact I was displeased with the appearance of the limb scales most of the time and redrew them two or three times didn't help.
Changelog:
-Made him even fatter, for a more streamlined shape
-Added a tail fin and extended/added webs between fingers and toes
-Changed around the shape of some scales, making them based more on turtles than crocodiles
Category All / Fanart
Species Kaiju / Giant Monster
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Nope. The reason I did the Monsterverse redesigns was because they were supposed to be more grounded and because the G14 stuff seemed to have a somewhat more realistic level than K:SI, with the G14 redesigns happening because of popular demand. Anime Godzilla doesn't pretend to be grounded and the way the creatures are interpreted in it works within its setting. Besides, I'm not too invested into the anime trilogy, mostly since the main character has a strangleability level of over 9000 with his human superiority wank.
I have no set idea on it, considering there is only one specimen around. Monomorphism is as possible as dimorphism, but in the case of the latter, I imagine the gender Godzilla belongs to is the bigger one (I kind of think him being male is an arbitrary assignment instead of anyone having seen him with his dick flopping out or him trying to mate with a submarine). If male, the females are a bit smaller and less bulky, with shorter, triangular spines that are better for stabilisation while swimming, multiple ones having their territories overlap with the larger one of a single male who defends it from other males and radiotrophs of different species; if female, the males are smaller, slimmer and more mobile, their spines being longer and due to them storing guanine and lead compounds in their cores, having white borders. In this scenario, the females defend their territories while the males are vagrants, moving from one territory to another.
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