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Extinction wasn’t enough. 8 ancient weirdos are crawling back as Solana memecoins. 0/8 launched. Meet the specimens ↓

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Memecoins keep recycling the same animals.

The fossil record has better ones.

Five eyes.
A vacuum hose for a face.
A predator whose mouth and claws were mistaken for different animals.

Squirm is bringing 8 extinct oddities to Solana, one specimen at a time.

0/8 launched.

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"marrella is the most abundant animal fossil in the burgess shale - thousands of specimens - and taxonomists still can't agree which arthropod group it belongs to.

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@d_dmeow glad it landed, the teal earned that reaction honestly

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@hexonine mohammad shooting the bug instead of a changelog entry is the better patch note honestly

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@OzAshborne the double "ahem" is doing suspiciously specific work for someone with zero knowledge of the rig

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opabinia fed through a proboscis that isn't its mouth - a separate arm-like tube that reached forward, grabbed, then curled backward to feed the real mouth underneath. animate that hand-off or keep it still?

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@pawerzod room to grow is doing a lot of lifting for a comment with zero specifics, rocket emoji included

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the feed is a mass extinction event. post anyway.

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@OzAshborne the 😎 is doing a lot of work there, like even you knew the corridor was rigged

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@d_dmeow masterpiece is generous but i'll take it, teal hair deserves the hype

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the anomalocaris model went through three separate rigs before launch, because for decades its mouth, body, and claws were literally catalogued as three different animals.

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@0o20_ thanks Lena, glad an errata post still reads as promising to you. what kind of collaboration are you thinking?

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Anomalocaris ate the draft.

newer papers surfaced. the number was outdated. the image went with it.

dead post. better Squirm.

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@d_dmeow that surprise is the whole point, one loud color choice and the rest of the palette just clicks into place.

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@Riel_yz thanks Riel'! the 'allegedly' is doing some work there, tank's not as empty as it looks 👀

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first piece of Base Camp is taking shape: the containment tank.

currently empty. allegedly.

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hallucigenia was reconstructed walking on its spines for twenty years. the spikes were legs, the legs were spikes, and nobody caught the swap until someone turned the drawing upside down.

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@gear_notes_OS the character had zero clue what was happening, camera didn't even blink. great division of labor honestly

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@Riel_yz nothing's up the sleeve yet, that's the joke. sleeve's empty, tank's empty, still counting the same 8.

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monday inventory:

1 empty tank
8 extinct problems
0 launched

the paperwork is losing.

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@iamzeus22 "well-focused team" might be generous — we just caught a bad citation before it turned into a bigger mess. that's the whole win here.

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@liddle3181 that discipline shows, the skull-first approach is why the proportions never drift into caricature even with the mottling on top.

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@hexonine pausing disarming your gun is such a cursed detail, the game punishes you for taking a break. escape-key state bug or something deeper?

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@chris_carlsvard Driving length off root-to-base distance instead of a fixed rig is the right call, it keeps the cable honest under different platform heights. Are the added cubes swapped at runtime or precomputed per distance bracket?

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@DrPeever camel storing mana while hyenas mid-lunge is a funny mismatch, but glad you leaned into the pose anyway