You can tell when I've been watching the Discovery channels, because I wind up babbling happily in posts like this...
Bronotoscorpio Anglicus, whose smaller ancestor was the first creature to develop "eyes," which it had multi-faceted on top of its head. It was sort of like a modern day scorpion, except it was huge.
There was another version of it, a later evolutionary step (they say) that was over ten feet long, but I didn't catch the name properly and thus wasn't able to do any further reading on it.
Here's some halfway useful information from Wikipedia about the creature.
Honestly, I've always thought that if you need to create an alien race for your sci-fi novel, you could do a lot worse than to look underwater, whether in the far past or int he present. Especially deep sea creatures. I knwo we've talked about my fascination with marine biology before, though. This is just more of that...
Bronotoscorpio Anglicus, whose smaller ancestor was the first creature to develop "eyes," which it had multi-faceted on top of its head. It was sort of like a modern day scorpion, except it was huge.
There was another version of it, a later evolutionary step (they say) that was over ten feet long, but I didn't catch the name properly and thus wasn't able to do any further reading on it.
Here's some halfway useful information from Wikipedia about the creature.
Honestly, I've always thought that if you need to create an alien race for your sci-fi novel, you could do a lot worse than to look underwater, whether in the far past or int he present. Especially deep sea creatures. I knwo we've talked about my fascination with marine biology before, though. This is just more of that...