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Complete Galar fossils
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29K ViewsSome of you may have seen this already but I wanted to wait until closer to the SwSh's release to post it. Since the Galar fossils are made up of halves I made up some complete forms out of curiousity of what they might look like.
Based on:
Raptors
Stegosaurus
Dunkleosteus
Acrophoca
Based on:
Raptors
Stegosaurus
Dunkleosteus
Acrophoca
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I think Raptozolt would be a better name
Ice/Rock
The icy rock item.
Thank you ×100000 million!!! The fossil Pokemon look much better then when we first saw them.
Here’s hoping for a 3rd Pokémon SwSh DLC Expansion pack that has the Saur & Zolt fossils as well as the fixed versions of these fossils in 2021.
^^^
I particularly like the fiery look of the plates on dracosaur, and the lightning claws on velozolt (also I find the claws amusing since I was drawing what I thought the fossils might have looked like yesterday and also concluded "lightning claw. Gotta have claw that looks like lightning bolt").
My one real question is why you decided on a seal basis for your Arcto design? It is a real nice design, regardless of species inaccuracy; I like its cute snowy sweater a lot. It looks like a cool elder sibling of samurott. (And I've never heard of Acropocha before, so that's fun.)
I'm guessing from the description that maybe these were drawn without the names of the fossils, since though the vertical tail fin is a distinct hint to the aquatic reptile origin of Arcto, it's the japanese name of its fossil that really gives it away?
(also, Cara Liss should never be allowed near fossils. Like, lady, if other people can revive a perfectly functional and complete pokemon from just a feather or a claw, you could too. You just wanted to make horrifying amalgamations out of spite because the other scientists kicked you out, didn't you?)
tbh I mostly just picked it because the name worked well lol. Also because seals have flippers and are often ice-related too. I knew about the plesiosaur thing but was hesitant about it because Lapras exists and is also ice type.
Interesting, it was the name? I wouldn't have guessed, but I admittedly wasn't thinking about names at all. Pokemon sure do like to play off of the nameXdesign combos though!
Admittedly I feel like, would that same "lapras is a plesiosaur-thing and part ice type" logic not also have to apply to the fact that we have the water/ice type walrein line and dewgong-line, and water type primarina line and samurott when considering an ice seal fossil? (that's one single plesiosaur-thing to 9 pinnipeds, 5 of which are ice type!)
I wasn't as bothered by the existence of things like Seel or Walrein since they're multiple lines and based on modern species so Arctophoca could be seen as an ancestor. Lapras just felt a lot more...specific?
honestly lapras seems more like an amalgam of a very large number of things rather than something 'specific' to me? The loch ness monster (pose), plesiosaurs and placodonts (I thought turtles but I have since learned 'here are some things that are thought to be a bunch of probably-plesiosaur-relatives with shells'), whales (singing, intelligence), and bulbapedia suggests maybe viking boats (which would contribute the Dragony-headed-thing-carrying-people bit.)
(although it's always fun to wonder how the fossil pokemon might be related to the non-fossil ones- and what is to say that a plesiosaur fossil pokemon couldn't be an ancient relative of lapras?)
It's just, well, lapras is one single pokemon, and just like with modern-day pinnipeds, back then there were plenty of different plesiosaur types. Like, you have plesiosaurus with its neck the same length of the entire rest of its body, elasmosaurus whose neck was that long and then some- Liopleurodon and Kronosaurus are in Plesiosauria too, with their rather shorter necks and much longer snouts. And so many kinds of heads, long ones and short ones and broad ones and thin ones.
Lapras has a very smooth nice round kind face, like, can you imagine it with the Lots and Lots of Teeth that most plesiosaurs went for, like crocodiles on overdrive? (really... just LOOK at the gnashers Liopleurodon had!)
Perhaps it is just that pinnipeds are alive today, where we can see them and easily document their appearances and habits and habitats, and the plesiosaurs... aren't. (Oh to be alive when plesiosauria ruled the seas and see them in action)
(I kind of have a sudden urge to like, do a whole bunch of sketches of Arcto with each drawing from a different plesiosaur)
(I have a sudden mental image of a pokemon that gigantamaxes to have a neck the length of wailord's whole body, it would be so silly)
Man, it's a shame that the other halves of these fossils were lost to tectonics and/or time. As charming as the fossil-types we have are, I'm sure that these full versions would have a lot less life issues, Cara Liss.
Hey! Your design of Arctophoca was featured in a video on Youtube explaining the origins of the Galar Fossils.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXxNiU…
Thought you might be interested.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXxNiU…
Thought you might be interested.
Ugh I really wish people would credit all the artists in the description. Otherwise there's no real way for me to find videos that include my art.
I do admit that it would've been nice. But at least they did give you credit in the actually video when the art popped up.
Yeah but they don't come up when you search unless the name is actually in the description, so I probably would have never even known about it if you hadn't brought it up.
Oh ok. I don't really know how these stuff works so I thought this was a good situation. Sorry. 
I heard Sword and Shield are getting remakes like ORAS or USUM, and Nintendo needs this for it.
Uh... There's no source to prove who created it but I'm pretty whoever made this chart used your designs here without permission.
Ok I found the source. They specifically based it on this and credited me twitter.com/pokelapis151/statu…
Weird. This is kinda why I redid it because as you can see all the possible Arctophoca fusions are really boring lol
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