New Family Posted!! And New Update!

The futuristic "camel" family, Chameliidae, has been posted! You can see them here: http://www.metazoica.com/camels.html. Of course these are only 4 of the 7 genera in the family, I never post them all. The "camels" of the future are actually "throw offs" of the deer family. They just deeply resemble camels of today. They are tall and appear to be all legs! They have no humps, and are tailless. Also, I updated the deinognathids. They can be viewed here: http://www.metazoica.com/Deinognathids.html. I made the necessary changes, and I put back the pics that had apparently been deleted!! I don't know how that happened! But if it happens again, I'm going to write a very strongly-worded e-mail to my host provider!!!!! That has happened more than once even when I have gone back in and tried to put the pics back up!

Well anyway, enjoy! I would also appreciate some input from other evolutionists.

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  1. AnonymousAugust 29, 2008 at 1:29 PM

    Cassandra, I like your deer-derived "camels". But even mightest of them look like cubs. It seems because of too large eyes. For example, at 3 m.-long dolphin has eyes like dog's ones by size. And at your giants eyes surpass in size these of giant squid. Just try to draw smaller eyes to large animals. I know, the woman's perception and so on, but zoology must be at the first place, before the tender emotions.

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  2. Dee TimmyHutchFanAugust 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM

    I tried to make them in light of a giraffe's expression. They have fairly large eyes.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM

    ... but not as large, as squids! Just compare the size of giraffe's eyes with its complete size.

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  4. Dee TimmyHutchFanAugust 29, 2008 at 6:48 PM

    Well, perhaps I do go overboard with the pencil when drawing the eyes. I don't always mean to make them look THAT big. But I also don't think they should be as tiny as a dog's in a 30-foot tall mammal that uses vision as a means of defense.

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