I have a shin mogzilla figure who has them horizontal. I thought they got it wrong since i always saw shin mogzilla with his hands vertical. What do yall think?

Pour le tournoi de Bacuh, j'aimerais créer un hybride arthropode à base de mantis, mais je n'arrive pas à me décider sur quelle espèce choisir pour la base, je pourrais avoir des avis?

(Before you ask, yes, V.3 exists, but it did not have substantial enough changes to warrant a post here).

Hoping to get some more feedback on Cetathora! I am planning to continue refining the design going into the actual Sea Hybrid War this fall, so this is the next big step in that direction. Skeleton/Skull Design, Metrics, Genome, and Introduction provided as images.

The big thing would be to effectively increase the strength of the sonar so it can be weaponized without Hanking myself. Otherwise, I generally feel pretty good about the genome and overall design, but as always, I am up for additional feedback there as well.

Link to previous design: Cetathora 2.0

The Hastovenator is the primary, spear-hurling dinosaur antagonist in the retro-style survival horror game BLOOD MALL (and its remaster, BLOOD MALL: RETAPED). This fictional predator grows keratin quills in its throat and can forcefully eject them as deadly projectiles to hunt its prey.
The Hastovenator's name is a portmanteau of the Latin words hasto (spear) and venator (hunter). In the game's lore, only the female Hastovenators can grow and shoot these deadly quills.
The Hunt: The Hastovenator traps the protagonist inside an abandoned shopping mall, leaving a trail of impaled victims and gore in its wake.
The Strategy: To defeat it, players must navigate through store vents and back rooms to locate the creature's nest in the garden store, grab one of its eggs, and lure the monster out into the open to be gunned down.
The Sequel: The story expands in BLOOD MALL: PART II, which features multiple ferocious variations of the Hastovenator and a government conspiracy.

The Hastovenator is a natural, kind of
"proto-dinosaur" that existed in the late Triassic period. This one was pulled into the present from the Triassic, for reasons that will become clear.

Is it a worthy opponent for indom 2.0, will goji center explain The Hastovenator on YouTube? Will just have to wait and see

Tropidurus hispidus is a medium sized lizard from the tropidurus genus. It has Sharp queratinized overlapping scales that are also fairly flexible and dont give too much weight for the animal. Is this a good genome?

Any good genomes for spider venom resistance, or do i just die?

Has anyone got any ideas to complete their genome?🧬 Or even give them the ability to fly?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15WdLhL038AOnCcT\_rmJWtCRITlWwth0ml6QzfvqEp1U/edit?usp=drivesdk

The Opulent King's Document.

Crawling in the brush
Terror of a hundred legs
Brings death with each step

Stats:
Length : 30cm
Weight: 99 g

speed (land): 0.4m/s
speed (water): 0.25 m/s

Habitat: Sector A (rainforest)

Primary offences: silk shot, fast movement, venomous forcipules,using her intelligence to plan out attacks, using her long muscular body and multiple legs to grapple and wrap around prey. 

Primary defenses: armored segments, fast movement,ability to climb/swim to evade predators, fake head on its tail, flat body, camouflage,hydrogen cyanide secretions.

Environmental adaptations: Prefers humid areas but can survive in drier conditions. Can both climb and swim. Can hide under rocks and plants. Thanks to its asexual reproduction, Omukade can overwhelm the ecosystem by breeding rapidly.

Genome:

Amazonian giant centipede (Scolopendra gigantea): Provides the base genome for the hybrid. Large size, extremely fast movement speed, large venomous forcipules, long antennae and a long segmented body with dozens of legs are some of the advantages this fearsome arthropod provides our hybrid. The giant centipede also hunts a wide variety of prey such as other arthropods, amphibians, birds, reptiles and small mammals making it an ideal hunter in a hybrid battle royale with a wide variety of opponents. Its long muscular body and many legs allows it to wrap and grapple its prey. Her fast movements make it harder to attack her.

Waterfall centipede (Scolopendra cataracta): The only amphibious centipede provides the hybrid some adaptations for swimming. Its exoskeleton is hydrophobic and it swims by undulating its body in an eel-like motion. These adaptations allow Omukade to hunt in both land and water.

Chinese red headed centipede (Scolopendra mutilans): Can raise its tail segments to mimic a head in order to fool predators into attacking it. Adds red coloration to both the head and tail. 

Diabolical Ironclad beetle (Phloeodes diabolicus): Enhances the exoskeleton of the hybrid, adding thick laminated layers rich in protein fibers. Not all parts of the hybrid will be covered in this armor as the joints and legs will remain flexible. Only the tergites and sternites of each segment will have this layered armor. However the head of the hybrid will have the full interlocking joints of the ironclad beetle, fully protecting the most vulnerable part of its body from crushing damage. These armor modifications allow the hybrid to better survive crushing and piercing damage while remaining fast and flexible.  Also gives the hybrid a waxy cuticle allowing it to survive in arid environments.

Portia spider (Portia sp.): The portia spider provides heightened intelligence to our hybrid, allowing her to strategize, learn quickly and trick its prey.  Portia spiders also have some of the best vision of any spider. Its 8 eyes will replace the weak simple eyes of the centipede, with 2 large eyes pointing forward and 6 smaller eyes around the head, granting it both binocular and 360 degree vision, ideal for a predator that relies on precision.

Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus): Omukade will use inland taipan venom in her venom glands. This venom is considered the most deadly of any snake and contains both neurotoxins, myotoxins and hemotoxins. This venom is fast acting and is especially deadly against vertebrates. 

Horned Dung beetle (Onthophagus taurus): increase the muscular strength of the hybrid’s body and legs. Allows the hybrid to lift objects up to hundreds of times larger than itself and grapple with heavy opponents. 

Limpet (Patella vulgata): The forcipules of the hybrid are coated with goethite, the hardest biological material, allowing them to penetrate through even the toughest armors in order to inject the venom.

Spitting spider (Scytodidae): Allows the hybrid to spit a venom laced silky glue mixture from the hybrid’s mouth in a zigzag pattern, in order to immobilize prey before going for the kill thanks to silk glands linked to her venom glands. The large binocular eyes of the hybrid allows the spit to be accurate. 

Yellow spotted millipede (Harpaphe haydeniana): ability to secrete hydrogen cyanide from the body for defense. Immunity to own cyanide compounds.

Aphid (Aphididae) : ability to reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis

Ichthyostega was a Tetrapodamorph from the devonian with overlapping ribs. Could this be useful for rib armour?

Who can create and design an offspring of Ruth and Shimo?

I want to see your designs of the offspring.

And there’s two rules:

1. You have to use the genome from Ruth and Shimo. Just to make sure it’s the same species.

2. You can give the offspring an scientific name but it has to be a new breed, like Wintus is a sub-species of the main species, Nexus.

Submit your designs now, (once you’re done designing them)

Is it possible for a hybrid placed under the hall of shame to be resubmitted for part two of the hybrid war if the reason was that it wasn't terrestrial?

Here are some notable examples,:

Who’s got the BALLS to create a new hybrid to match Megatronus, who can matches her power?
Submit… now….

Introduction

As you likely know, Pixel recently released a theropod hybrid Hel claimed to "destroy the current meta." I will be putting this claim, and others made in the doc to the test. This is her doc for anybody who would like to fact-check me. I will be more scrutinous here as I expect a lot from Pixel as he is a well-known creator and I know he is capable of making good hybrids. I would also like to bring this discussion here to a place we both have access to, as I have been informed that Pixel has been "debunking" some of my claims on the Titan Games Discord server, which I am banned from.

What Is Done Well

1. Great art, as always.
2. The doc is well-written and informationally dense.
3. Many very good design concepts such as focusing on rotational inertia
4. It's a solid, well-rounded hybrid, with a few very important tweaks.

The Big Problem

The biggest problem in Hel by far is the inclusion of the belgian blue cattle. The thing about the Belgian Blue is its incredible muscle is caused by a single gene. This incredible muscle, however, is a huge problem. Its muscles are large but its tendons and blood flow do not compensate and the muscles end up being incredibly stiff and inefficient. That much added muscle to a theropod at all would make it incredibly sluggish and would likely lead to agility and durability problems. But it's not just more muscle; the muscle does not have the tendons or the blood flow required to function correctly. And on top of that, the muscle is not hypertrophied; it's hyperplastic. Hypertrophied muscles have larger individual cells, which is the most efficient way to grow large muscles, as they get much stronger and waste less volume and mass on the connections between the cells and such. If Hel had this mutation which gets rid of myostatin, she would absolutely be entirely hanked.

And unlike many traits, with the Belgian Blue you cannot take only part of it or localize it. Myostatin is systemic and produced by the endocrine system. You can't select which muscles get it and which muscles don't. And it's also only one gene; you can't turn off a certain number of these genes and turn on some others. It's one gene. A single gene will always have 2 copies. That leaves 3 options. Either Hel has 0 copies, 1 copy, or 2 copies. 0 copies wouldn't make any sense, as if it were 0, Belgian Blue wouldn't have been included in the genome. So the question is between 1 copy and 2 copies. Both of which are bad and would negatively affect the hybrid. 2 copies would literally cause it to die from the heat while its muscles suffocated from a lack of blood flow. At that scale it is impossible to survive with such hyperplastic muscles. 1 copy, however, while it would certainly not benefit the hybrid, might not kill it. When an animal has one copy of the gene, it looks much more normal, as it still has some amount of myostatin to inhibit muscle growth. But the same exact problems are still there just on a lesser scale. It may be possible for Hel to survive if she only has one copy of the gene. Of course, the best course of action would be to remove the belgian blue from her genome entirely.

But as she is currently, she is on a very thin line between being functional and nonfunctional and she certainly wouldn't be capable of combat either way. It is a super easy fix to just remove it. For the rest of this analysis, I will act as if it is removed because it would be exhausting and meaningless for me to repeatedly mention the problems it causes alongside each other problem.

Medium Problems

The following are things that are certainly going to be physically problematic for the hybrid but won't cause it to be fully nonfunctional.

The Tail

The tail is a good attempt at making an advanced system but it falls short. Pixel claims the tail system will give Hel both agility and speed. That is wrong. Hel's tail is using the Carnotaurus to uptilt the transverse process (the things that stick out the side) to 75 degrees. That is relatively unclear depending on if it's 75 degrees from the normal angle of the transverse process or from the spinous processes. I will assume from the spinous processes, as that would be better for Hel and it seems that's what Pixel means in his doc since he said "as opposed to the usual angle of 90 degrees." The issue with that, which Pixel is aware of, is that that takes away space for the epaxial muscles, which are essential for holding up the tail voluntarily. Without these, the tail would need to be stiff to support its own weight which would reduce agility significantly as seen in Carnotaurus. Hel attempts to solve this problem by adding raised neural spines. There are a few issues with this. The biggest issue is he doesn't actually have raised neural spines. Nothing in his genome has muscular raised neural spines at the distal segments of the tail. He notes Shantungosaurus and Stegosaurus as to providing these spines but neither has raised neural spines at the distal segments of the tail. You can see this clearly from how thin they get when you reach the tip of the tail; that is because they attach tendons, not muscles. They are not strong enough to handle the force from the weight of the tail. Even if he did have sufficiently strong raised neural spines, they would significantly increase rotational inertia and would likely be even worse for agility than if the tail were simply made stiff. You also can't just have the spines at the tail base, as they do not have the leverage needed to hold up the tail.

A viable solution to this problem would be to have the transverse processes uptilted near the base of the tail, where the epaxial muscles could be attached to the raised neural spines without creating huge rotational inertia problems and where it doesn't have much effect if the tail is stiff. Then for the more distal segments of the tail, reduce the angle of the transverse process and make the tail less stiff. That way you can get the caudofemoralis muscle where it counts the most (the tail base) while maintaining the flexibility where it counts (the distal segments of the tail.)

The Armor

Contrary to Pixel's claims, the earless monitor lizard does not have "lightweight" armor by any stretch of the imagination. The percent weight claims are completely baseless and do not make any sense. I will not make any solid claims on the weight of the armor but a pure guess would put it near 20%. These lizards are known for being sluggish and relatively immobile. Their armor is also simple bone and keratin. There is no advanced material science there that would suggest it's any more efficient in terms of durability than something like a crocodile or any other armored lizard. This armor is very heavy and would likely lead to poor agility and heat issues. Even if it's scaled down, it's simply not efficient compared to something like fish scales or other advanced materials. And Hel is also said to have crocodile scutes. I won't get into the issues of having both of these in the skin at once but that will make Hel even heavier.

The Stamina

I will not go into detail in this section on the things reducing stamina; those have been mentioned in the sections on the armor and the Belgian blue. However, I will describe why the contributions for stamina are contradictory and will cause problems for power. The blue wildebeest is not some magical force. If you could truly have both power and stamina to that degree, every single animal on earth would have evolved that system. There is always a tradeoff. Wildebeest sacrifice peak force for stamina. In a muscle you only have so much room. That room could be spent on myofibrils or on mitochondria; both are very large. Of course you can improve stamina in some ways without making your hybrid weaker but everything comes with tradeoffs.

Small Problems

The following problems are problems that don't impact the hybrid too much but are just incomplete research or redundant contributors.

1. Multiple contributors are stated to in some manner "reinforce the limb bones." It is unclear which contributors reinforce what and why all of them are necessary.
2. A "strong fibrolamellar cortex" literally means nothing. A fibrolamellar cortex is used to see the growth of a dinosaur. Having a "strong" one would typically just mean that the dinosaur grew quickly and healthily.
3. Apatosaurus did not have a "wide epiphysis." "Epiphysis" is a word for the round part of a long bone. Assuming that is referring to the limb bones, apatosaurus did not have that nor would you even want that in a hybrid.
4. All vertebrates have hyaline cartilage. Joints already have hyaline cartilage. The tiger shark doesn't do anything for hyaline cartilage. Fibrocartilage is a thing used by many weight-bearing animals in their joints but that is also present in a lot of animals, including humans, in the spine.
5. There are 3 crocodiles doing almost identical things.
6. Caracal does nothing. It doesn't have stronger arms than xenosmilus and it can't provide any adaptations to the arms that will improve the strength over xenosmilus.
7. A longer ilium does pretty much nothing other than add weight, as the weight can already be supported with the current ilium.
8. The thagomizer is adding nothing but a little extra weight. Unless you count looking cool.
9. The ostrich does not "improve PCSA." PCSA stands for Physiological Cross-Sectional Area. Those are a bunch of big words that mean the cross-sectional area perpendicular to the muscle fibers relative to the length. PCSA is completely dependent on the muscle and is fundamentally reciprocal to the length of the muscle. The ostrich is not well known for having short muscles nor would that be a benefit.

This is another bug hybrid, this time for pure height. The Crane Weevil is the tall king of the bugs, anyone wanna challenge him for the title?

Roger / Dreadnasuchus Melanicus

Suchomimus: Base body and Bone density

Nile crocodile: Jaw shape,muscle,teeth and osteoderms

Chinese Alligator: Immune system and armor on the limbs and belly

Aerosteon: Arm anatomy, claws and muscle mass for the arms

Kelenken: eyesight, hearing and neck muscles

Dimensions

Height: 4 Meters/ 13 feet

Length: 13.8 meters/ 45.2 feet

Weight: 6000 kg/ 13200 lbs

Bite force

6.2 metric tons

Running speed

9.3 ms/ 20.8 Mph

A warrior is coming