Critters 6: Sphinx, et al by @VioletWhirlwind (Violet Whirlwind)

More web adoptables.

From left to right, top to bottom...

Dawn horse: The ancestral horse, which had four hoofed toes in the front and three in the back. (Those things were HARD to draw correctly!)

Barse (needs a rename): Bat-horse. Everyone knows what a pegasus is right? Well, the Bat-horse is what would have probably REALLY been the outcome if horses had evolved wings. It would have looked more bat-like, and been smaller. The wings would have first developed as webbing between the toes of a Dawn Horse and the toes would have lengthened, resulting in wings as webs between the vestigal hooves as is shown here. The hind legs may have developed in a normal way, loosing the extra toes, but the underside of the hoof would have developed groves or hairs in order to keep from falling off branches. And they would be quite a bit smaller than modern real horses.

River-fox: A fresh-water, aquatic vulpine. It has webs between the toes of it's paws, eats fish primarily, and has a large, flat, beaver-like (but still fur-covered) tail. Lives in burrows bordering rivers and lakes. Can run over land to catch small land creatures, but prefers to catch fish in lakes and rivers.

Sphinx: This mythical beast is an amalgomation of both the Egyptian and the Greccian sphinxes, having the female appearance and wings of the Greccian species and the totally lion body and hair-style of the Egyptian sphinxes. Even the males look like females. (This was the first time I have ever drawn a human face. The drawing was orriginally going to be a dragon, but it turned into a sphinx for some reason.)