Behemoth

In the Squawk Role-Playing Game, behemoths are gigantic intelligent dinosaurs related to sauropods. Unlike most sauropod who walk on their fingertips, behemoths are knuckle-walkers and can also walk on two legs, allowing them to carry and operate tools with their hands. The behemoth on the right in our illustration is a chimera with extra skin armor, insect-like appendages and batteries of some kind of openings on it's shoulders.

In real life, sauropods were long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs and included the biggest land animals that have ever lived, like Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus. In recent years we have learned a lot about the skin of sauropods. Except for the feathered dinosaurs, it appears that all dinosaurs were covered in small non-overlapping scales like the skin of a turtle or gila monster. Some sauropods had armored scales like a crocodile. Elongated dorsal scales in some sauropod skin impressions inspired the row of spikes running down the back of our fictional behemoth (only in the male of the species.)

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