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Please suggest additional things to write about. I will write about anything. I even wrote about their favorite colors. I want to make the longest description ever.

" The skeletal cells produce a chitinous extracellular matrix, in reality modified cell walls, which serves a similar role to cartilage in bone formation. The red tissue produces the enzymes which sclerotize this matrix as it grows. "


I wanna know more about this, I like it a lot, does the bone have stem cells on the outer surface that continually add to a larger and larger bone until reaching a diameter, with growth plates on the ends like real bones providing extension, with strips of red tissue stringing through it in order to provide nutrients as well as the sclerotizing hormones? This would result in Bones that have growth patterns reminiscent of the rings and trees I would think.

Alternatively having the stem cells inside the bones, producing fresh tissue from the inside pushing out, with particular cracks along the outermost oldest bone as it grows, again with strips of red tissue flowing throughout it for nutrients as well as securitizing hormone. This growth formation would be more reminiscent of bark on Old trees.

It also brings into question how does old bone get dealt with, and how does bone get mended.

Do the green tissues inside the bone have digestive enzymes for destroying scleratized cell walls? That may be very convenient regarding healing fractures. It would also I think allow for very smooth cleanup regarding old bone.


It could also result in a syndrome where green tissue in the bones destroy the sclerotized cell walls too early and result in brittle bones, wobbly bones or soft bones...

I'm imagining the endoskeleton growth is modified exoskeleton growth, just inside-out, so it would sclerotize starting from a core, more like your first description.

Added a few of the wip illustrations. This will be wip for a while but I want feedback on and ideas for the text.

How do they respond to rain? How do they respond to storms? How do they respond to hail, do they have different kinds of responses to all these things?

Added details about defense against weather

@Coolsteph do you have ideas for what I can add to the description? My goal is to beat the record for longest description ever. Again.

I surely would have ideas...once I read it. It would take so long to get through that I could probably get through 6-7 more normal-sized submissions first. Newer members would probably need more help per unit for their submissions.

How goes the progress?

I'm hoping to finish some of the art soon

Finished main image. Continuing work on other art.

Could we get a look at a cross-section of a feather? Is there anything weird going on in there or is it just kind of empty?

Along with that the growth of an individual feather and shedding.

Added additional art, including finished musculoskeletal diagrams by Evo

are chicks competitive among themselves for food brought from the parents?

how do parents determine who to feed?

This post has been edited by colddigger: May 4 2023, 10:02 PM