Doesn't this setup of showing only the images here skew votes in favor of dazzling art, rather than weighing both the art and descriptions?

P.S. I updated my art from how it's shown here. Could you update the art shown here accordingly?

Finally, the art is complete. I would have updated this page about 33 minutes ago, but my computer had time-consuming technical issues. I hope it's not too late to accept the updated art.

I agree with OviraptorFan's suggestion about making this a new genus.
The arms still look a little robot-like, but now the long hooves are recognizable as such.
"Hooves" is the more standard spelling of "hoofs", but either is functional.

I concur with the idea that several rivers have existed for long enough to carve canyons.
Should these canyons be large landmarks, for each long-lasting river, or simply narrow regular habitats where the rivers cut through mountains?

If there are not separate "canyon" and "riparian" biomes, there should be notes on the ecosystem pages saying which river systems have cliff walls.

I saw the ping....or tag, whatever its name is. I get automatic alerts for that.

There's a faded-out, dotted line on its lower tail fin, which should be filled in. I suggest drawing a gap between the two tail fins, to make it clearer they are two distinct fins, and not one fin pinched in two. As it is, it's not really shaped like a fin. It looks more like a snake's tail. Removing the azure coloration from the underside of the lower tailfin may help in making it look more like a tialfin.

The Srugeing has dorsal fins and two fins on its abdomen. This descendant has no trace of those, with no explanation or mention of the loss.

You should split the description apart into paragraphs. As it is, there's separated by only one tap of the enter key.

"it is during" This should be: "and it is during".

"Like as going" what does this grammar construction mean? Did you mean: "such as"?
"the shrinking of the upper tail fin" should be: "the upper tail fin shrinking".

I'm not sure whether being highly focused on mating can be described as "near-suicidal". Animals don't often seek their deaths on purpose. Admittedly, antechinus reproduction has been described as "suicidal reproduction", but it seems that phrasing is more of a catchy title for a paper or a popular science publication than the usual phrasing. I recommend "focus single-mindedly on mating".
"Large distances": I have a feeling this should be "long distances".
"Yet, by Saturday". For some countries, the week begins on Monday, not Sunday. Monday to Saturday is six days, while Sunday to Saturday is seven days. Therefore, it's best to mention what day of the week the mating event hypothetically starts.

"their lung" That suggests they have one lung shared between them, like the Graeae or Grey Sisters have one eye shared between them. I recommend "their lungs", or "Though a Cryobowler Srugeing's lung".

It's necessary to capitalize the items in the diet.

No, it's not. I had hoped to finish it earlier, but I believe I still have time today.

When the deadline was extended to June 29, I assumed "11:59 PM my time zone June 29", not "11:59 PM June 28". My entry isn't finished yet, due to some time-consuming things blocking progress.

Yes, the image is still broken on my end. What is your image host? I use Imgur.

"Thermoregulation: ectotherms" Should be "Thermoregulation: Ectotherm".
"To further help with the illusion" That suggests purpose, like "to further help with the illusion of being a powerful wizard, the man behind the curtain made his voice appear to boom." I suggest, "further helping the illusion".
"advanced life cycle" 'Advanced' is relative. It's better to use "complex" or "multi-step".

Hah! A typo cryptid!
"to dig into tree bark." "Which help it dig into tree bark" is better phrasing.
"While it does not change their colors" There's pronoun confusion there.
" soft shelled" is better as "soft-shelled". That makes it grammatically clearer they aren't shelled (with the shell-removed) eggs which are also soft, but eggs with soft shells.
"off of sources" "Off of" is redundant.

I like its sprawling, scaly, dinosaur-like look. I somehow get the impression this fauna will get really popular.

Baseejies sure are popular trees in organisms' diets. I'm glad to see those glittery outdated-CGI palm trees get appreciation.

I like its wacky alien-Muppet-esque look.

"Tree.Its" That's a minor spacing error. There should be a space in between.

I concur with TheBigDeepCheatsy about the robot-like arms and pincer-like claws. Changing the angle of the raised claw should help. The limbs, rather than seeming to have armor growths or thickened skin, appear to be golden robot-like coils. Changing the exact shape of each "ring" of raised tissue, especially on the arm, or making the armor incomplete over the arms should help, as could adding some kind of scaly organic texture.

"predators.They" That's a minor spacing error.

"tleast" is a typo.

"maturity. Thus" I recommend: "maturity, so". As it is, it sounds choppy.

Rudi10001, that concept needs a major overhaul. It's not out of the question it could have nest symbiotes that co-evolved with it, as one species of tarantula has a "pet" frog and screech owls keep blind snakes in the nest as pest control. However, your description suggests deliberate breeding, which is hard to place within its chimpanzee-beaver like level of intelligence. The closest behavior to wearing clothes within its limitations is disguising its scent as it hunts by rubbing the shed skin of other fauna on its own, which is similar to the behavior of California ground squirrels using snake skins. Other problems have been pointed out by Disgustedorite.

Although Sagan 4 has loose art standards, the art also needs improvement. The right arm, which is holding a miniature spear, is too small. Its legs also look rather scrawny and insect-like.

Flora and simple organisms are often easier to design in a pleasant and accurate way for beginning artists. It may help you to design a flora or simple organism, perhaps a Keryh, for your first submission.

Remember to use the submission template for your next attempt.

Oofle, the user-posted image is broken. Without the image, I cannot provide complete feedback. From what I recall of the image, the line separating the tail fins from each other makes the fin shape unclear. You said you would be fixing some of its issues. Would you like to re-submit your corrected version, or edit your original submission?

I updated the description to mention that, although Gentonnas help Pirate Waxfaces survive the trip and arrive on the Driftwood Islands, they're doomed on arrival.

It's good to see you again, Oofle.
It's probably too late to participate into the Prime Specimen contest, but this could always be a non-Prime Specimen entry.

The lines in the template at the top should be capitalized, and it's customary to have no spacing between them, so there's only one tap of the enter key between lines. For example, the name, habitat list, size, and diet lines should all be capitalized.

There are some stray lines around the beak and fins that need to be cleaned up. There's a line that's not filled in with color just above the beak, and it's hard to interpret the tail. The tail seems to be split in half or pinched.

"within cryobowls, this has come". The comma should be a period.

"adult, which while". I recommend splitting that apart using "adult. While at first".

"do not eat" should end with a colon or period.

"which though often" That doesn't make sense. I recommend: "which is mainly comprised of symbiotic cryoutines within the cryobowl, with some small fauna."

"bowls, which though". I recommend: "bowls. "Although it is unable".
"is able to prevent" I suggest: "it is able to prevent".
"already born" should be "as they are already born".

There are some other misuses of commas here and breathless run-on sentences, too. Try reading your work out loud to detect run-on sentences. Posting your work into a text processor, such as Microsoft Word, may help you detect run-on sentences.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Jun 26 2021, 08:57 PM)

Wait, hold up. How exactly is a flap of skin that serves roughly the same mechanical purpose as a bra less appropriate than a creature evolving to literally wear clothes that cover up its genitals? One of those things has considerably more sexual implications than the other. EDIT: After getting a little bit of outside input, I've added in a clarification that the pouch and teats are only present in late pregnancy and while nursing. They don't have permanent breasts. My question still stands.

Well, it wouldn't "evolve to wear clothes". As the concept stands, the loincloth-Silkruggs would become symbiotes that catch and eat bloodsucking insectoid fauna on the host. The loincloth-webs wouldn't be permanent. They'd fall off or be consumed by the Silkrugg if damaged too much or if overly soiled, which would consistently occur. There would be other sorts of limits on what the loincloth-Silkruggs could do, such as possibly only making webs during peak bloodsucking seasons. It would be an interesting bit of fairly-plausible whimsy. The phenomenon would be based on various bloodsucking fly species targeting tender areas, and, well, officially male Spondylozoans have some highly vulnerable such areas now. (Though the loincloth-Silkruggs would also have female Spondylozoans as hosts, of course.) Flunejaws wouldn't even have protective hair. Perhaps a later descendant of the loincloth-Silkruggs would specialize in other often-parasitized areas. However, as things are, there aren't quite enough bloodsucking insectoids yet, even if there logically would be. It's just a description now, since I would be developing several other submissions first.

EDIT: Given Flunejaws' lifestyles are very different from cows and other ungulates, which would surely make them less vulnerable, I'll probably have to change the concept.

Unless their skin is just slightly iridescent, I wouldn't say catching the light of dusk or dawn justifies called them "bejeweled emperor scylarians".

I was going to suggest polyfee and bonyfee colonization somewhat paralleling barnacles on whales, but it turns out both only showed up after the bejeweled emperor scylarian. You could say its bones are an unusual color, and shiny and colorful like jewelry. Garfish have unusual bones, so it's not unprecedented.

Yes, it looks good. I'll simply have to adjust the Handlicker Dundi art myself later.

I was planning on doing that today, but tried to prioritize some real-life matters. I suppose I'll do my review a few hours early.

". It is also a decent climber, each"
With each.

"built-in bra".
...that's...questionable phrasing. I would rather not connect six-eyed alien otters with such private female undergarments. (Despite the fact I hope to someday give Flunejaws loincloths made by Silkruggs, loincloths seem to cause different reactions when it concerns alien fauna wearing them.) Just ending the sentence at "her teats" is better.

Well, yes, I do want you to change that line.

Since the Shrew Lizard-focused diorama could be used as a gallery image for the Shrew Lizard itself, could the Scrubland Hornface and Tigmadar-focused image also be used as a gallery image for the Scrubland Hornface and the Tigmadar? Could the Nonibble depiction be extracted from the greater image and made into a gallery addition?

There needs to be a new name for that supercontinent...Dividaja? Or perhaps an evolutionary biologist, Sagan 4 member, or speculative biology artist? Wilson? (E.O Wilson) Perhaps a Russian biologist, since Russia is huge (if not so big as the supercontinent).

" Gamergate Gundis’" The apostrophe is not needed.

"Moderate sized" should be "moderately-sized".

The description seems small: more than half the description is describing other Gamergate Gundi-eaters.

I don't know what else to say. I don't know its respiration, though. I presume it's carbon dioxide, but it could be more surprising.

Hahaha. What a ridiculous weirdo.
I like it.
"testament to their endurance" A testament to their endurance.
" offspring eat" Do you mean to separate the adult and juvenile/larval diets? If so, I recommend: "Carnivore (Adults: Bejeweled Emperor Scylarian, Needlenose Scylarian, Vicious Seaswimmer; Juveniles: Charybdis, Redbone Gilltail, Speckled Spinderorm, Hanging Necarrow)"
I still have to fix the Redbone Gilltail. It turns out Redbone Gilltails never had bones. I should be fairly easy to just give it a striped pattern suggesting bones. Since it's not impossible to salvage, you don't need to remove it from this fauna's diet, although it may delay approval somewhat if it takes too long to fix the Redbone Gilltail.

June 29 should be plenty of time for me to finish my entry, and it might be sufficient for others.

You forgot to add a description. Having no description or template at all is unprecedented for works in progress, and it would surely not be allowed.

EDIT: Never mind. You must have added that in the few seconds it took for me to type this.