#burrowing

I need to name this lil guy /sil

-Blank sit

-sit with head tilted

-come in nest? Nest? Nest?(head tilted)

-come in burrow? Burrow? Burrow?(head tilted)

-join?

Following up on some new speculative biology concept art, I decided to redesign and create new alien species for a hypothetical world around Alpha Centauri A. The original idea which, was tied with my old Proxima Centauri b series, was a high gravity world. The updated setting is a hypothetical moon that orbits a real gas giant candidate that was delicate fairly recently that orbits in Alpha Centauri A's habitable zone.

The first set of species are a redesign of the Octopods. The original Octopods resembled cephalopods with eight knuckle walking legs, four eyes, and a radial symmetry. This version drops the radial symmetry and more resembles jumping spiders with two pairs of legs for locomotion and two smaller pairs for manipulation. The base species on the top left resembles Earth's Gorilla's a fills a similar ecological niche. Right next to it is a gibbon-like arboreal species that can feed while constantly moving. On the top right is an insectivorous species akin to Aye-Ayes with hands the sense the faint vibrations of prey in the branches before using their strong teeth and elongated fingers to fish them out. Right below is a frog-like freshwater species and next to it is a burrowing mole-like species that evolved calluses on it's limbs to aid in said burrowing. At the bottom left is a marine species that retained the hands on its smaller limbs to shift ocean beds for shelled organisms to feed on. Lastly on the bottom right is an arctic species that is the largest octopod species and evolved calluses on it's smaller limbs to shift through snow.

Expect more aliens to come in-between other projects.

More than 5,000 years ago, burrowing bees made their homes inside heaps of rodent bones buried in a cave on Hispaniola, the Caribbean island that comprises the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a new fossil study suggests. The bees encountered the bones while digging to their preferred depth in the soil. They stopped to build nests inside tooth and vertebra cavities, which turned out to be the…