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More pages from Kentaro Randa's sketchbook in the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episode "Furusato", featuring Kong, a Death Jackal, a Needlewalker, a Mother Longlegs, a Spore Mantis, a Skullcrawler, and a Vinestrangler. (Plus Vileplume and Victreebel?)
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I hope you're ready for a sextuple submission!
The Sticky Bug and the Mincer Mantis
The Stinky Bug and Masher Mantis (Tribal Versions)
The Stinky Bug and Masher Mantis (Space Versions)
These six creations all share a common ancestor. The Sticky Bugs and Mincer Mantis are believed to have split off from the Stinky Bugs and Masher Mantis first before morphing into the two separate species. Despite all of them being close genetically, the temperments of the Sticky Bugs and Stinky Bugs differ greatly from the Mincer Mantis and Masher Mantis.
P.S. do let me know if Tumblr messed up the .pdfs in a way that makes them not work in Spore
OMG ITS SO COOL!!!! I love the way they look! it's like two different mantises evolved into herbivore and carnivore...I think... even then it still looks like you put a lot of effort into these little guys! I love the little lore thing that's not too complicated(that's not saying is dislike complicated lore) and makes sense! I LOVE IT! (i love all your creations equally though <3)
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skull island was very good and i am very glad to have met this perfect boy
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Superspecies History: Spore Mantis
Welcome once again to Monarch: After Dark, the digital gateway between you and the organisation dedicated to understanding and navigating this troubled new world we live in.
Our Skull Island coverage continues as we take a look at an insectoid creature capable of hiding perfectly in plain sight, the Spore Mantis.
(Pictured above: Photograph taken of a Spore Mantis. Strangely, it is dated 1972, a whole year before the first expedition to Skull Island)
Monarch Database File: Spore Mantis
Monarch Designation: Phasmid sylas
Height: 50 feet (maximum)
Species Designation: Insectoid florafauna
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A creature with near-perfect camouflage capabilities, the Spore Mantis are believed by Monarch to be precursors to the Phasmatodea order of insects, a family that includes modern stick insects. The Spore Mantis has a body comprised of a powerful muscle system, tendons and tissues more commonly found within trees than animals, allowing them to scuttle along the ground with alarming speed.
Some at Monarch have likened the Spore Mantis to the General Sherman tree, though vastly prefer the latter as the General Sherman is unlikely to sprout legs and start hunting them down.
The Spore Mantis has a trunk that plays host to a slug-like parasite armed with a bone-crushing bite, and a digestive system where protein-rich sap breaks down consumed prey, before excreting the remains in a crystalised amber that openly displays what the Spore Mantis had eaten. While Monarch's cryptobiology department appreciates this transparency, others are often repulsed by the sight.
(Pictured above: Sketches of the Spore Mantis by Stephanie Levallois)
A Spore Mantis was briefly spotted by the 1973 expedition team after reaching the approximate sight of Jack Chapman's death by Skullcrawler. Details of his encounter with the animal, if any encounter had taken place, are unknown.
The nature of their camouflage make the Spore Mantis rather difficult to track and observe for study. It is likely that many of these animals have been passed by Monarch research teams without being correctly identified.
By 2027, Spore Mantises residing in Hollow Earth were among the creatures hunted down and taxidermied by Raymond Martin.
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And that's all she wrote for the Spore Mantis! Regular insects seem to terrify plenty as they are, so it is rather fortunate that the Spore Mantis are confined to Skull Island and the Hollow Earth. Although, did anyone else feel this trunk moving beneath us..?
Until next time,
Monarch: After Dark
Disguised as a log, this giant member of the Timematodea is rarely seen and more rarely observed. Like many other arthropods, it disguises itself by attaching parts of its environment to the body, but it is particularly specialized to bark, which will be stripped off both living and dead trees. Due to this behaviour, the forests can support this species only in small densities; accordingly, spore mantises are very aggressive towards each other and fight viciously over territory, not rarely resulting in death for the defeated. Smaller and weaker specimens often carve out a life in the forests' borders or in open space, where out of other options, other materials are being used for disguise. The materials have to be reattached every time a spore mantis molts; while a lot of material can be salvaed from the molted exoskeleton, new material has to be added to accomodate the size increase, while too-broken or rotten pieces need to be replaced. Unlike most arthropods that use silk or hair bristles to attach material to them, the spore mantis has modified salivary glands that excrete a mixture of terpenes and polymerases that is used to glue the bark pieces to their body and hardens into a substance very similar to amber in appearance and properties, often trapping plant parts and small animals living on the bark inside. It is unknown if the ability to produce terpenes was naturally evolved or transferred from plants through the chimera virus. Lacking the size and strength to strip off bark, young spore mantises disguise themselves with moss and often climb trees in search for food, which consists mostly of plant matter, carrion and any small enough animal that can't get away fast enough. The carnivorous tendencies seem to have evolved rather recently; the gut of spore mantises is filled with huge, symbiotic nematodes that help with breaking down consumed animal matter. A big bugger this time. Changelog: -The bark isn't part of the spore mantis' body, but actual tree bark -Changed from carnivore to omnivore -No more amber poop, the amber is now a glue to attach the bark -I wasn't sure what to make out of the slug-like parasite, so I turned that into nematodes (which are commonly found inside other animals, unlike slugs) -Relationship has been pinpointed to Timematodea, a phasmid suborder of ancestral, non-stretched animals.
