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Offline Aethelwulf

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Help naming a weird creature.
« on: 16 April 2023, 10:17:36 AM »
I need a name for this creature. The main body comes from a toy protoceratops skeleton, the carapace is the carapace of a real dungbeetle I found, the tentacles cometh from a toy octopus, and the jawbones come from a real shrew skeleton I found.
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Offline Digits

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #1 on: 16 April 2023, 10:25:11 AM »
Fluffy ?

Offline Dags

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #2 on: 16 April 2023, 10:27:57 AM »
Steve

Offline modelwarrior

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #3 on: 16 April 2023, 10:32:47 AM »
Produngoctosaurus.

Offline Storm Wolf

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #4 on: 16 April 2023, 10:35:36 AM »
Nightmare ;)

I like Steve also for a pet one :D
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Offline Spinal Tap

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #5 on: 16 April 2023, 10:36:17 AM »
Scarasorex


Combination of Scarabaeidae (dung beetles) and Sorex araneus (common shrew)





Offline Aethelwulf

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #6 on: 16 April 2023, 11:43:10 AM »
Scarasorex


Combination of Scarabaeidae (dung beetles) and Sorex araneus (common shrew)
That's a good one, I might use that.

Definitely Steve for a pet one.

Offline YPU

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #7 on: 16 April 2023, 11:57:00 AM »
starfaced prowler
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Offline Aethelwulf

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #8 on: 16 April 2023, 12:03:07 PM »
starfaced prowler
That could be its common name, and Scarasorex could be the scientific name.

Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #9 on: 16 April 2023, 12:52:01 PM »
Reminds me of this comic by Gary Larson.  :)
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Offline Aethelwulf

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #10 on: 16 April 2023, 12:55:05 PM »
Reminds me of this comic by Gary Larson.  :)
lol lol lol lol
I love Gary Larson's cartoons.

Offline MHoxie

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #11 on: 16 April 2023, 08:05:14 PM »
Anthropophagus
The Dunsmouth Terror
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Offline Aethelwulf

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #12 on: 16 April 2023, 08:11:34 PM »
Anthropophagus
The Dunsmouth Terror
I Can't Believe it's not Rover
Dunsmouth Terror is another good one.

Offline MHoxie

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #13 on: 16 April 2023, 08:16:54 PM »
I asked ChatGPT for some appropriate monster names based on your description, and it came up with a list:

Ceratobeetle
Dungocerapod
Shrewtopus rex
Protoctobeetle
Octoshrewceratops
Dungoctopod
Shrewoctobeetle
Ceratoctobeetle
Shrewtobeetlepod
Protoctobeetlepod

Offline FifteensAway

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Re: Help naming a weird creature.
« Reply #14 on: 17 April 2023, 04:00:24 AM »
Scareasorex wolfus for the scientific name.  (with the added 'e'). That works for me and gives credit to the discoverer (creator).
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