personally I would use something more like silver fountain 1st suggested:
Something that lives under the ice and when it finds food it smashes from the ice with tentacles. For this it would need something like echo location or vibration sensing? As many people have said blubber instillation like a seal but don`t make it too big as not much would properly live in the ice sheet as it is very cold and without sunlight so not much to hunt.
Didn’t realize that was just an example. Guess I’ll just use my old random generator method to determine what sort of creature I should make it.
EDIT: So I came up with an entry. To come up with it, I decided to use a random number generator method, use that to come up with an ancestral form for it, then refine it to make it a little more interesting. So, here’s my random number generator system:
First off, radial symmetry or mirror symmetry?
Flip a coin to determine. Heads is radial, tails is mirror.
How many limbs?
Roll a twelve-sided die.
Vertebrate, mollusc-like, arthropodesque, Platyzoan, echinodermesque or wormlike?
Roll a six-sided die. The number indicates which of these groups it belongs to.
How many eyes?
Roll a twelve-sided die. On a one or a two, the animal has no eyes, otherwise the animal has (number rolled)-2 eyes.
Results:
1: Radial symmetry.
2: 10 limbs.
3: 4, so Platyzoan.
4: 6, so 4 eyes.
So my entry is a 10-limbed, 4-eyed rotifer.
The creature’s ancestral form was conceived as simply using it’s tendril-covered discs to sweep food into its toothless mouth (with a rudimentary crushing system in its stomach), using its simple eyes and legs to move according to the time of day and seasons. The planet it lives on is aquatic, but at the time, eyes had only recently evolved. Before this, evading predators was rather simple. Evolutionary pressure from the new predator-prey arms race resulted in the following rather defenseless filter-feeding creature:
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becoming a far more imposing, far larger predator. This creature retained three of its tendril discs, which still help pull prey to its maw, but three of them fused with limbs to produce structures like a Venus flytrap which help keep bigger prey in front of the beast’s maw, allowing it to bite it with its retractable inner jaw. It’s six flippers and fluke limb-tail allow it to move quickly and avoid larger predators, which it can spot with its more advanced eyes (I based the pupils on geckos).
Thanks! I always enjoy the chance to do mini-speculative evolution concepts. The whole “evolution of eyes accelerates evolution a hundredfold” bit is taken from real life (it may have caused the end-ediacaran extinction, which was far more severe than that that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs), and it’s why the dominant form of animal life today doesn’t look like this: http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol100/images/25/ediacaran.jpg
I’m pretty sure there’s a real planet where metal rains from the skies. It’s an exoplanet (a planet outside of our solar system), and with molten metal rather than solid metal, but still. Either way, I’m excited to see what you come up with that can survive in such an environment.
The answer is sadly “no”. But if do something like that ever again you can post your suggestion there!
UDATE:
I just orederd all the pieces I needed from bricklink, but I will only be able to start building in 2 weeks or so, because I don’t have time until then. What means that the MOC will be finished in around 3 weeks.