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I see you browsing Nergali's, Coolsteph; I actually started working on this before he started on his, back when it was assumed there would only be one survivor population.

(I had actually spotted a typo and decided to point it out.)

Darn it. I wanted to make my own few Tuskents. Ah, well, I can always revise the concepts to be descendants of this or the other Tuskent next Generation.

It's a lovely submission. I like the shading and shape. It's interesting to contrast with its relative, the Snowstalker Tuskent, which has a similar shape and almost identical coloration.

I found a typo: "wide arrange of flora" should be "a wide range of flora".
" tactics rival those" was probably meant to be "tactics to rival those".

I like the musculature and active pose. I like the art: it looks like watercolor.
I noticed the feet are different from its ancestor's. Spondylozoan legs are something up for revision now, so I'm not sure whether it's acceptable.

But the Rainbow Marephasmatis is extinct...
Is this one of those cases where an organism was erroneously made extinct and was interpreted to survive multiple extinction events, like the Uksip Marfinnus?

I know how it can climb: "and a strong, short neck with a deep beak with a hook at one end, so it could use its neck and beak as a sort of third limb. Unfortunately...I'm not sure if there are any trees in good environments (e.g., Javen Tropical Rainforest) that it could plausibly climb."

My concern isn't that it can't climb, but that there may not be any trees both big enough for a 70-130 cm (ideally on the bigger scale) kakapo-jaguar to climb and allow it to escape from the Argusraptor Complex/establish a distinct niche. In my concept, it's good at jumping, but it seems a lot of useful trees are nearly vertical, and I can't make it anything better than semi-arboreal in one jump. I'm not sure whether it makes sense for it to be dependent on dense growths of saplings.

I realize that, with three continents merged together and super-long organism lists in some places, making organisms with particular niches like this in highly biodiverse environments is time-consuming. Perhaps, once the Week 4 Beta ecosystems page is completed, the Alpha page could be re-organized, too, to make it more apparent what kind of flora there is, and at what sizes.

(The real sketch is much bigger.)

I had a loose idea for a largely black, panther-like, nocturnal Terrorbeak descendant that lived in rainforests and was good at pouncing on prey. With the Argusraptor Complex surely making the Terrorbeak instinct once it's approved, I had to speed up the Terrorbeak descendant's development. Unfortunately...I'm not sure how to design it to fulfill its intended concept while logically co-existing with the Argusraptor Complex. I had an idea of making it nocturnal (if the Argusraptor Complex isn't nocturnal), semi-arboreal, or both, but I'm not sure how to modify it so it can climb trees well enough to get away from the Argusraptor Complex and not compete with them. It doesn't have arms, after all.

So far, I gave it a long tail, like a jaguar, a small flap on its neck for heat dissipation (since I planned for it to live in blackflora-dominated forests, which would be fairly hot), big eyes (for vision at night), and a strong, short neck with a deep beak with a hook at one end, so it could use its neck and beak as a sort of third limb. Unfortunately...I'm not sure if there are any trees in good environments (e.g., Javen Tropical Rainforest) that it could plausibly climb.

Does anyone have any ideas?

It's good to see you again, Hydromancerx.

If it's genus a group, shouldn't it be "Electinus spp."?

There are some formatting errors, such as not italicizing "Shewanella oneidnsis" and choppy sentences that lack commas.

I better make my planned Terrorbeak descendant fast, then, and acknowledge how it persists under such competition. I planned for my Terrorbeak descendant to be nocturnal. What are the Argusraptor Complex's hunting patterns?

The Dundigger's main defense is smelling and tasting really bad. Does it not work on these due to a very poor sense of taste and smell, like how horned owls prey on skunks because horned owls seem to have a poor sense of smell?

Does it no longer have predators that can attack it from behind? The Needlespike Flunejaw description said, "but the needle-like spikes on the hind legs deter direct leaps from behind onto its haunches". I would assume that, with an expanded blind spot behind it, the spikes would be extra-useful.

I am also in favor of being subtle over it. If shrews weren't subtle, I don't think I would ever draw one.

It's best to mention, ideally in the template itself, that it goes into the Boreal Forest only for wood, rather than outright living there. I think some organisms (in Beta) specify living in some environments only for nesting.

Are you using "Maineiac Boreal" as a shorthand for any watersheds in that habitat? Otherwise, it seems odd to put it there.

It seems you forgot to draw the legs in the background. You might need to change the legs, as its ancestor appears to have knees but this one does not. I say "might", because it turns out a lot of fauna have knee or heel misinterpretation problems, so the problem might actually lie in the ancestor. (see [url=see https://sagan4.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=404)]this[/url] topic)

I recommend thickening the lines for the mouth and adding basic shading, to suggest depth. The proportions of its fingers and wrists is very different from its ancestors, justifying some explanation. It's also odd that it should obtain food primarily with its hands when its fingers are so small. It seems more like a sloth than a gibbon or chimpanzee in its wrist and finger proportions, although sloths have long claws, not fingers.

It's hard to tell if the Tigmadars' noses are accurate, because most fauna of its lineage don't show noses except from the side, where it's impossible to tell if they have a philtrum. For the Tigmow, I assumed its ancestor didn't have a philtrum, and didn't add one. Hydromancerx's Marine Tamow descendants/grand-descendants don't seem to have philtrums, either. It seems philtrums may have something to do with carrying smells to a vomeronasal organ in the mouth, so it could depend on how need the fauna would have for a vomeronasal organ, if they have one at all.

It's an adorable land-nautilus Neopet.

This is what happens when a chimpanzee gets an architectural degree.

It's an interesting design, artwork, and execution of concept. I suspect you added two species of large flora specifically to give these something to use, from how prominently the Four-Prongion is shown.

"mate with who’s sexy enough" That's a weird word choice for an animal/fauna. I believe the word generally used in this context is "attractive".

This has an interesting look and body plan.

That's....an unusual way to describe just "mating". One wouldn't want Google to get the wrong idea.
"both Wubs will be fertilized". Don't you mean "their eggs will be fertilized"?
"nearly a hundred egg." That should be pluralized.
"Wubs have evolve" should be "Wubs have evolved".
"population numbers. Vast swarms of them crawling over every available flora." Those sentences should be merged.

Something this handy should be on the wiki, too, and perhaps on the habitat listings.

All these different colors/types of trees are going to cause interesting continent-specific phenomena or regional flora looks...

Welcome to Sagan 4 Alpha, Kopout....or rather, welcome back.

"super continent" should be "supercontinent". (It may be underlined in red, but it's real scientific jargon.)

Species names should be consistently capitalized, or uncapitalized. Judging by how you capitalize "Flunezen", I recommend capitalizing the names of the Obsidoak and Garagantuan Obsiditree. "Hand eye" should be "hand-eye". Generally, one would use "'V'-shaped", with a hyphen, not "'V' shaped".

The last sentence is long and breathless. I recommend adding a comma after "parental care".

Why does it need to fit between branches more easily? Does it hide, like a squirrel, by flattening itself on the top of a tree branch so that its silhouette is harder to detect against the branch? Does it need to walk along branches backwards frequently to escape predators, and the spikes would snag on branches? Does it live in very cramped spaces within its nest?

I'm not sure if instincts can "reawaken" like that. On the other hand, it's not implausible for the Pickaxe Tamow to actually have instincts to use vegetation for its dwelling, and the instinct has been modified here. (Adobe dwellings can be made using wooden posts or straw mixed into mud.)

"meant specifically for joeys to practice using their tails" That suggests they know to anticipate the joeys' needs, which is very remarkable. It's very remarkable that chimpanzees should store rock ammunition specifically to throw at zoo visitors for fun when the zoo visitors show up. Unless these are meant to be very intelligent for animals, it would be better to suppose the sticks are mere spandrels of nest construction, like crevices in archways once used to hold wooden beams in the archways' construction, and the joeys happen to use them in a way that is less risky than practicing outside. Or, perhaps, pregnant/lactating females are instinctively driven to add more sticks to the walls, because curious joeys tend to make holes in the nest wall, explore the holes, and then fall out of the nest to their deaths, and so whatever females were instinctively driven to add extra sticks made a barrier against joeys' curiosity and had more joeys survive.

" they ''are''," "Are" should be italicized.
"support enough flora to support a population." Using "support" twice is awkward; the latter use can be replaced with "sustain". As this is a description and not a novel, though, this is of only cosmetic importance.
"mooch off of" is a rather informal phrasing for an organism that's a parasite. "Feed on" would be better phrasing.

Does it make sense that a single genus parasite would be capable of parasitizing so many kinds of dissimilar flora? Or does it not really matter at this point, because there are already pests an parasites that feed on multiple kinds of dissimilar flora?

I wonder whether the presence of these parasites, and how they don't feed on plyents, would give plyents a big advantage in glaciers, tundras, and dunes/hot deserts. Or perhaps nonvascular flora would dominate more there.

Are they absent from their environments because of a lack of flora, lack of large flora, or due to not being able to withstand extreme cold, extreme dryness, or extreme heat? Depending on the reason, they might be absent or substantially less common in habitats like montane deserts or alpine areas (which can be similar to tundras).

I like the artwork and design.

"Terran human" Should it be presumed there are humans from other planets? It's best to say one or the other.

The last organism called a "dweller" was many, many ancestors ago: the Forest Dweller from Generation 36. I think using the term "Eucaudopodosaurian", for lack of a better, more precise colloquial term, would be better. Although the descendants of the Polar Glasseater aren't properly linked, various fauna whose names begin in "xata" descend from it, as does the Pinyuk. "Xatas and allies" or "Xata family" could describe the xatas and the pinyuks within the Eucaudopodosaurs.

"with males having orange flank feathers as well as a crest." This suggests only the males have an adaptation they can use to soften their falls. Which is exclusive to males: the flank feathers, or the crest?
"dweller"

Does it have tasty sap? Is it an unusual color? Does it have a noteworthy taste or smell?

Though it may be difficult to make flora interesting, especially since this one seems largely "oak tree, but blackflora", the description can surely still be made more appealing.

I'm sure there has been worse art in the Alpha timeline.

It might be possible to reduce the lineart contrast between the leaves and trunk by using the magic wand tool (on GIMP) very specifically on the outline for the leaves, and then replacing the color with a darker shade of purple.

Can you add a little more detail?