Oh darn...one of the two predators I made it to try to avoid. Admittedly, I did take into account Sausopreys could fly, and therefore could still make the occasional quick hop to the Dixon Dunes.
The concept for my Dundigger evolution had it be crepescular to nocturnal, and a dune specialist, with big feet like a camel that let it deal with shifting sands better. They could probably still coexist if this one's diurnal, among other possible differentiating details, such the Dundigger evolution being more of a herbivore.

It has interesting coloration. Seeing a six-eyed, seemingly Earth-clone mammal-esque thing with pink fur is interesting.

What would its preferred diet list be in the Dixon Dunes? It's a big list, so the top six should be sufficient.

P.S. I spotted a typo: "the it has".

It's adorable.
The description seems a little small, though functional.

Oh darn. I was going to make a Dundigger descendant which used the Dixon Dunes as a refuge from predators and especially the argusraptor complex, and now Skewer Shrogs are there. Ah, well. Thankfully, I didn't write too much of its description. I'll give a proper comment later.

In the upper-right corner of the first post of the topic, underneath "print this topic", there's an edit link.

All the big images on this page take quite a while to load, which is particularly obvious for things at the bottom, like the latest submission. It would help if future submissions were put under a spoiler section.

Seeing them all like this, in the same style, with consistent and accurate anatomy and similar poses, highlights how much these closely-related species can differ from each other.

How about "Sruglettes"? That also suggests they are small.

I may not have the time now to properly go over a genus group submission this large, but it seems sufficiently thorough.

The details listed within the template, with the possible exception of parenthetical statements in the diet, should be capitalized. The period in the reproductive method sectiio should be removed.

Judging by the specification of "when perched in an obvious position", it is unclear how many of those genus group organisms to which the description applies are actually a significant part of their diets. If they are only sporadically in obvious positions, it would make sense to put them farther in its diet list. For a diet list this long, it might be permissible to give it two sections. For example, "Cloudswarners, (When perched in obvious positions): Silkruggs, Minikruggs, [... "Hair nimbuses (non-atmospheric species, rarely)". It might also be permissible to put: "Cloudsarmers, Rarely: Silkruggs, Minikruggs, [...] Hair Nimbuses". For the latter formatting, it would make sense to specify it can only eat particular species when they are in obvious positions.

Oh my. That's quite a lot of censored swears. It's not even comic-book grawlixes. It gives me the impression Fishing Graspers are the Samuel L. Jacksons of Sagan 4, which is quite strange, because they look like weird cow-pattern rats doing a Michael Jackson moonwalk. Meanwhile, the disreputable-looking, pungent Handlicker Dundi is totally clean-mouthed. I honestly expected such vulgarities from the mouths of Kugards.

"which is either sleeping or drowsy" Which are either sleeping or drowsy.

This looks pretty menacing. The background and color scheme emphasizes how menacing it is.

Ooh. It's like an alien-pineapple-UFO combined with a glass sculpture.
It's interesting to see flora as the focus in your latest style.

"However, the most important ancestral characteristics it retains are that it can feel happiness and that it is capable of being ticklish."
I wonder when, exactly, the capacity to feel happiness was developed on Sagan 4, or whether it's hard to define the definite point where that occurs. (much like "Do lobsters feel pain?/Do they feel pain as humans do?") Perhaps, for whatever reason, it's worth specifying in the same way someone might specify "Blue jays enjoy eating sunflower seeds" when "enjoyment of sunflower seeds" or enjoyment of seeds in general, as a property, existed in many other organisms other than blue jays.

It's interesting to see the dark-brown wood of its teeth. The lighting is good, too.

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Opening and closing fountains...laying burns on Ralsei that are so sick that he dies from shock...

That's darkly hilarious, especially because the first thing that came to mind was a rap diss instead of just being very mean. She would rhyme Ralsei to death. If Ralsei is indeed a red horn handband, as speculated, perhaps she would be made be wear Ralsei's remains as a sick trophy, and possibly make her seem even more demonlike.
The idea of Susie being a good host because she doesn't go to church and therefore wouldn't know how to get rid of demons is pretty good, although it's all speculation as to whether the church in Hometown even has exorcism capacities or teaches people how to do that.
Hmm...I wonder if Kris's interest in the occult was what summoned the red soul/Player to begin with. (Turns out I'm not the first person to think that up. Somebody on Reddit did that this October.)

It would improve the images to remove the excess white space of the supplementary images and enhance the contrast or otherwise get rid of the paper texture for the first supplementary image. It seems the Alpha standard for supplementary images is somewhat higher than that for gallery images.

"it's ancestral": its ancestral.
"ancestors fast budding": ancestors' fast budding.
"as individual can": an individual can.
"year, Individuals": "year, with individuals".
There's no need to capitalize season names.
"that's are" That are formed.
"an attest": testament, or "and so attest".

The fact there aren't specific watershed biomes in Alpha probably means watersheds are neglected. This is good.

If you can't improve the contrast and trim the sides for the art, I can do it for you later.

I like the gradient on the purple stem.


"hopefully to" Try replacing "hopefully to settle and become" with "happily to settle and become". It doesn't make semantic sense, since this is roughly equivalent to seaweed and cannot have emotions. I recommend, "and may settle and become" instead.

"upon settling;" with a semicolon, that forms a very large, breathless sentence.

"play here;[...] That is also a very long sentence.

I believe all the terms enclosed in parentheses in the template should be capitalized. I am not certain, however.

EDIT: The name should be below the image.

If you put the link in the image ("IMG") tag, it works perfectly.

At what point will people make virtually zero small bugs, herbaceous plants and grasses, though? If Kruggs, as a whole, were a genus meant to imitate super-large bugs like goliath beetles, would the Swimming, Tonsa, and Catch-Me Kruggs be worthwhile to create? The "bug" diversity would be implicit. Certainly, people can split from genus groups, but the overall named diversity would likely be lower. Would people bother to give new submissions diets adapted to specific habitats, and give them some sense of place and make them clearly part of the local ecology, or just make them generic, all-genus eaters, like generic "insectivores" that eat Vermees and Neuks and Minikruggs? There needs to be some limit.

It may be possible to green it a blood color different from what its oxygen-carrying pigment would suggest.

Green-blooded lizards have green blood due to biliverdin, a bile pigment. It's speculated to be a way of resisting malaria. Some marine fish have it, too.Some marine fish have it, too. Unfortunately, adaptations specifically against disease would likely be underdeveloped due to it having very few disease-causing organisms relative to Earth, and few disease vectors like mosquitoes and ticks.

You could use Imgur for now. Imgur did get bought up by another company, which seems to not bode well, but for the moment, it works.

Make sure to capitalize the stuff in the template.

There's also an overly large space between the template and description.
Please do some image-processing to get rid of the paper background. The patchy lighting and texturing is distracting, like including the default black background for a Sculptris model.

"flora, during" There should be an "and" before "during".
"body weight, their" The comma should be a period. "mature height an" Right now, the sentence sounds breathless. It would be much improved by adding a comma after "mature height".

"Their segmented body". If you're not talking about multiple individuals (e.g., a herd), as a general rule, use "it".

Oh, that's beautiful art...but you really ought to put submissions as undeveloped as these in another place. It doesn't seem complete enough to justify taking up a work-in-progress slot. The image needs a little processing, and the template has only three filled lines.

You need to arrange the template so there isn't so much extra space between these: just press the enter key one time per sentence.

I realize now that the Beta submission guide could be clearer. Try looking at submissions that already exist for formatting guidance. The scientific name should be in parenthesis just after the common name, and the common name should be just after the picture. It's not necessary to specify what the name means in the template, and generally isn't done, although you could specify what its name means in a trivia section of the description.

You'll need to be more specific about its diet. There are a few "anything smaller than itself" exception submissions, but those are for genus-group submissions and microbe-level consumers, and even then it's typical to specify a few other genus groups or interactions with other species. For the diet of the larva, you'll have to specify exactly what it eats in the diet.

The sentences are much too long.

", and who could blame them?" This too informal. It is okay to have the rare joke in Sagan 4 submissions, but it should be dry and formal-sounding.

"who's oily" Whose oily.

It's best to provide just one perspective on the submitted organism in the main image, although you can provide the other perspectives in supplemental images.

I can provide more feedback later.

I see argusraptors/large jewel-eyed saucebacks are being extinction-causing superpredators again. Pitting (heh) them against the other superpredator of the region is like summoning King Kong to fight Godzilla.

This inspires me to make a kaiju brawl with my idea...although it would be hard, because the present idea works with the lazy, predator-free, fairly small Sealkey.

This is inspired by the wildlife of Pandora, isn't it?

Now that you mention how much heat the blackflora would absorb...I wonder how many large endotherms in those biomes should go extinct from overheating in midsummer?

That is some very nice texturing.

I wondered how long it would take for someone to bring it up...
Custom emoticons are interesting, if of limited practical use.
...Is U.S. President Barack Obama a Sagan 4 species?

I think I already made my comments when this was a work-in-progress or idea. I also did not spot any errors or things that needed to be clarified or elaborated upon.