I love driving by cybertruck owners with my windows down because I can effortlessly yell “Soylent Loser Cuckhold” at them and watch them get visibly mad and almost rear end whoever’s in front of them because I distracted them.

If someone wholeheartedly bought a 100,000 dollar ps1 graphic held together with duck tape and glue that can kill you in like 30 different ways, then it’s morally okay to wedgy them.

And if they don’t die from the carpet burn caused by the hyper-sonic wedgies I give them, then their lithium bomb will do it.

What animal groups do you classify brute wyverns as?

There’s too many options with descriptions too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.

Also this is the last poll!

This is the last post seeing what people classify different monsters as, and as usual people had some pretty cool ideas!

Alright let’s get into my thoughts, and this shouldn’t be too long.

Anjanath and Deviljho are likely tyrannosaurs, and possibly related, although Anjanath has three fingers. This means they possibly split from other tyrannosaurs right before the loss of digit three but right when strong jaws were evolving.

Brachydios and Barroth are likely closely related due to their armored heads, tail clubs, and well developed arms. I place them as neoceratosaurs due to the family having members with very keratinized faces and headgear as well as scutes.

Glavenus would theoretically belong to the ceratosaur group…

buuuuutttttt

Glavenus is one of my favorite monsters and tyrannosaurs are tied with paraves for my favorite dinosaur group. Even though I haven’t shown frontier monsters in this series of posts, I use them in my phylogenetic trees just because it’s good to have a large sample size. I placed it closest to Abiorugu and Giaorugu, which are also canonically related to Deviljho. So I can get away with calling the sword tailed carnotaurus a tyrannosaur.

Every other brute except for a certain Metroid faced freak I’ve united into a single group due to how some members have beaks, tusks, or both, as well as most having omnivorous or herbivorous diets. I thought it would have fun phylogenetic and anatomical implications to make them heterodontosaurs.

Due to the short face, tusks, and skin secretions I’m betting on making Quematrice a sister group to the aans. I’ll also move banbaro to be a sister genus to duramboros and put Dalthydon as a sister genus to Kestodon.

Rompopolo I think might be part of the more basal families of parave wyverns like the new world raptors and Seikret, that started converging on Alverasaurs. Meaning it’s actually a “bird wyvern”.

Thank you all who participated in this fun series of posts!

What animal groups do you classify leviathans as?

There’s too many options with descriptions too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.

People are pretty divided on what leviathans are in a similar vein to piscine wyverns, and some answers were wild.

So time for me to weigh in.

I think Lagiacrus, Agnaktor, and the crocodile thing we see in wilds in the windward plains are a family of Crocodylomorphs.

I think Gobul is a goosefish relative and thus an angler while Nibelsnarf is a brachyopoid temnospondyl.

Skeletals I made for their UHC video.

Everyone else is a member of that Polypterygia family I mentioned in the results for the piscine wyvern poll, except they’re closer to elder dragons than to piscine wyverns.

In this case Somnacanth is a sort of “missing link” in the sense that it has a lot of features I think the ancestor of elders and leviathans had. Paired dorsal fins, coelacanth face, gills, and horns on a noodle-y “fishapod” body. Every other Polypterygian leviathan is thus a gradual progression into a more firmly terrestrial existence.

And then there’s Balahara… I’m very unsure about it. On one hand I was going to toss it into the proto snake group with Dalamadur and Najarala due to the weird flexible skull and post-cranial features, but it turns out it has gills. If it’s a polypterygian then it would be more similar to the outwardly reptilian Ludroth, but it has gills like Somna. And that’s under the assumption that they’re actual gills and not some other novel structure.

What arthropod groups do you classify neopterans (monhun class) as?

The descriptions for the answers would be too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.

People were surprisingly diverse in their answers for this!l

An important thing to note is that Neoptera is an actual family of insects that includes all insects that can fold their wings over their backs, or are descended from ones that can.

Anyways time for my thoughts.

Hornetaur are grasshoppers.

Vespoids and Bnahabra are wasps. Bnahabra are said to lay their eggs in corpses, which is a little odd for a Hymenopteran but the family isn’t unfamiliar with doing things with dead bodies such as in the carrion bee. Some versions of their models have six wings instead of four, which I’ve always thought was to help further sell the idea of their wings beating super fast in their flying animations, plus the extra wings disappear in their resting animation. I’ve seen some people argue that these guys are beetles too.

Altaroth are ants.

Seltas and seltas queen are beetles with extremely sexually dimorphic flightless females, much like trilobite beetles. There was a time I thought that the pincer of the seltas queen could have been derived from male reproductive parts and thus indicate that the females are actually intersex much like moles, but some beetle grubs actually have pincers so this is an unlikely thought.

Ahtal-Ka is possibly a very strange mantis. The silk she produces throws some people for a loop, but silk isn’t a hard thing to evolve. It’s just protein strings. Even the muscle Pinna nobilis evolved to make it.

bulaqchi is possibly a flightless mosquito? But its mouth parts are more like those of Hemiptera.

Konchu is not an insect. I don’t care if canonically it’s a beetle, it has four pairs of walking limbs and no distinct abdomen. It’s either an isopod or a myriapod.

No posts about monhun poll results today, kinda just want a day to recover from the projected outcome of the election.

The best thing everyone can do right now is stay safe, remain anonymous both on and offline, and move to a blue state if you can.

Obviously things are looking bad, but that doesn’t mean you should roll over and give up. Keep going and surviving and trying to find as much happiness as you can.

Turn all your sadness about these past few days into anger at a system that is at its core incredibly unfair and harmful.

Obviously you should prioritize your own safety but if you do choose to protest then don’t back down and remain standing until the end.

What mammal groups do you classify fanged beasts as?

There’s too many options with descriptions too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.

People have a lot of opinions on the fanged beasts! I’m surprised nobody raised the idea of groups of them being afrotheres or xenarthrans, which is something I’ve seen before. Anyways it’s my turn to weigh in now.

Bullfango are… well, they’re pigs.

Blagonga, Congalala, Rajang, and Ajarakan I think are a group of cursorial old world monkeys with possible relation to Papionini (so mandrills, baboons, geladas, etc. Kecha Wacha I think is part of the group as well, but possibly descended from an earlier family that hadn’t fully left an arboreal lifestyle.

Bishaten and Garangolm I think also are in the cursorial monkey group but within their own little family as well, and are united by their armored heads, keratinous lips, and weird tail fingers. If you’ve followed me for a while then you know Bishaten’s anatomy makes me kinda mad, especially with his feathers. My best guess was that they’re fur clumps, but they have a central vein like an actual feather. Mammals cannot evolve feathers because we have alpha keratin while diapsids have beta keratin, so fundamentally they’re very different structures. So because of that I had to whip out a crack theory and say that the ancestor of bishitty and garang underwent a horizontal gene transfer event with a bird or bird monster. Possibly by endogenizing a virus that had itself endogenized various hox genes and the genes for feathers and beta keratin. So that explains the duo’s keratinous lips, dino hips, and bishit’s feathers (with garangolm having avian scales).

Gammoth I think is a primitive proboscidean that independently evolved a trunk due to its dentition, but I’ve seen people classify her as an ungulate which is also fair.

Canynes are canines.

Volvidon I think is an armadillo, mostly because I like armadillos.

Arzuros, Goss Harag, and Doshaguma I think are a family of armored bears. Goss and Dosh are likely each other’s closest relatives due to their extensive shagginess and cranial bosses. Bears don’t usually have flexible fingers like Goss though and so I’ve seen some people argue that it could be a giant sloth, and at one point I entertained the idea of it being an ape.

Lagombi is… idk. The beak and the fact that it is described as neither a bear or rabbit throws me for a loop.

I refuse to talk about Bombadgy.

What animal group do you classify snake wyverns as?

There’s too many options with descriptions too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.

This is the first one where I couldn’t fit all the potential options in a poll. And as such there is a lot less engagement since it’s easier to click a button on a poll than to type a response.

As for my thoughts, I think Remobra should be reclassified as a wingdrake and a cortos relative. Najarala on the other hand I think is a close snake relative or rather a stem snake, one that split off right before the loss of the front limbs and ears and whose closest living relative is Dalamadur.

But due to najarala’s head anatomy it’s very easy for people to come to wildly different conclusions, with others saying they’re synapsids and/or fanged wyverns, or another type of lizard.