On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: > > > We also have examples of both 4-limbed (Easterners, Dragaerans, Serioli, issola) > and 6-limbed (cat-centaurs, jhereg, creotha, tiassa) creatures on Dragaera. > Evolutionarily, that's unexpected. Perhaps one set is native and the other > is imported from our "small invisible lights", except that the Serioli are > also 4-limbed (or Vlad's description of them is incredibly lacking). Just saw some film of coelacanths - they looked rather six-limbed. I guess one would opt for a) six-limbed land animals->four-llas, which would make especial sense for the (formerly brachiating?) bipedal Serioli (who aren't necessarily exactly limbed in our sense - see _Dragon_, where the one Vlad meets seems jointless or even tentacle-y [tentacly?].) Or b) separate moves to land by four- and six-limbed fish. A water-based seafaring species might be surprised to find bony and cartiliginous (and the other kind) fish sharing our oceans with dolphins... Then again, we don't know to what extent the local fauna has been bioengineered...