Aquamoles

An old picture I only just finished... It is not meant to be realistic or plausible as it’s just a fun little exploration of the same theme...

As the almost empty ocean waters rose and flooded the lands, a number of animals rose to the challenge, adapted to the new conditions and filled the niches left empty through the great oceanic dying. One of these animals was the star-nosed mole. Over the millennia, they evolved and adapted, fanning out into a myriad of new, incredibly diverse species. Their tentacles elongated, being used as sensory barbels or to grasp their prey. Some even conquered the abyss or grew to incredible dimensions, their tentacles growing into fleshy pseudo-jaws to filter out microorganisms from the water. 

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