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Quadropedavia! Keeled sternum (you’d need a big one to attach the kind of flight muscles that would get this guy off the ground), modified scapula. My pegasus are fully feathered, including a ruff around their necks into which they can tuck their front feet to make them more aerodynamic. They have a feathered tail that acts as a rudder, although it does have a bone in it. Their feathered manes also help them maneuver in the air and are used socially for signaling mood. They have hollow bones and a bird’s complicated lung system to get enough oxygen for those flight muscles. They have a cloaca. They lay eggs. They are technically monotremes.

Things I don’t like: I think the skull should have been smaller, and it should look lighter than a horse skull (which it doesn’t). I think I should have made the spine longer—like a crane as opposed to a song bird. He looks too bunched up.

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:iconxenothere:
This is just awesome and well thought out :) How the heck did this go unnoticed?! I commend your research, as well as your art.

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:iconalhilton:
Thanks, Xenothere. Scapula for 6-limbed creatures are always an interesting problem. :)

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I think it looks magnificent

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