Serina: Snootbirds (Patreon)

Purely hypothetical illustrations of face-walking mitten descendants I drew back in 2017. The first depicts the generalized ancestor of the ones in the second illustration, which show a heavily-built grazer hunted by a pair of spider-like predatory forms. In the former, the feet have become purely display organs, while in the latter the legs have degenerated but the toes are elongated into spindly grasping organs.

Sheather did not like this idea.... but I still think it's good.... I intended on making a sea mitten species that walked on its face tentacles for the 270 MYH time period, but it ended up getting sent to the cutting board due to time constraints; the jetguppies took priority to a sea mittens part two entry.