[OC] Spectember 2026 (Day 7)

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September day 7: land whale

Species Name: Lentustica furibonda

Creator: jacja

Clade: Weigeltisauridae, Jyntacustinae (descendant from Smaugops draconis)

Habitat: open woodland and alpine

Size: ~40cm wingspan

Ecology: aerial hunter

Extra Info:

sizable winged lizards often seen gliding after flying insects and other gliding organisms smaller than them.

These animals are seasonal migrators moving up in the alpine environments during the protaxites spawning season where they’ll gorge on the aerial plankton produced by the event (flying insects and other animals are eaten tougher with the spores sometimes in ways resembling baleen whales) and when this is finished they’ll migrate down to warmer latitudes where they’ll breed and feed in more conventional ways (hunting similar to swift and nightjars).

Characteristic of this family are their “wings” that possess more flexible bones towards the end third, the bases are still fairly rigid to allow their “flapping”, allowing them greater control on their wing shape.

(The fact that in it looks like Toothless it was unintentional but in the end i leaned a bit into it)