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first drawing of 2025

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Oceans of ancient Mars

When the Yulakai gardeners came to Mars, they started to create life from the sand rich with iron, turning the wet clay into premordial ooze which became the first mollusks, and sponges – which at the time were actually quite hard to differentiate. Later through the guidance guidance of Yulakai, who shaped those creatures, weaving the waves of their evolution through the magic of change – first crustaceans – like for example gigantic Reef Archangels, which swam in the worm coastal sees luring the pray with their wing-like fins.

Their prey being usually a primitive slimefish – like Clakers - small fearful creatures, usually hiding among the corals, just to become prey of the false Yuoom – giant sponge pretending to become a coral, or to stick onto a jaw of a glutimouth.

But the slimefish were not the only harmless things in these cruel waters. You can notice little Tuts lurking in the shadow of the aneworm colonies, accompanied by the sea cyclops, and the brown eaters, who is feeding on the minerals, and the small microscopic mollusks from the sand under them. You can also observe a coral walker – curious little thing with two long, leg-like structures holding a round body observing the swimmer sponges from atop of the pale tongue corals.