DAMNADAS -Cryptid Research-

The DAMNADAS Corp. is proudly presenting an insight-view into the hard work of our fearless field research-teams who are constantly travel all corners of the world to search for fossils of interesting predators for our genetic engineers to reconstruct, or, even better, living cryptids... This time we want to introduce you to Dr. Susan Chantall who re-discovered the awesome Megalania prisca aka Varanus priscus in the hot and dusty Australian outback for us. As one of our most avid field-scientists she did not only discovered a living specimen, but made a lot of further amazing discoveries just in the first few minutes after her discovery. As she took some photos of the giant reptile she let it approach too close to her and suddenly she found all her former published theories confirmed:

... as this creatures grow tree times -or even more- larger than the known Komodo dragon, it's possible it can even sprint faster. Komodo Dragons can catch up a human victim in a short sprint of about 30 to 50 meters. I assume, that Megalania prisca would consider the same range for a successful attack on human prey.
Komodo Dragons are capable to devour prey up to the size of a goat whole. Their loosely articulated jaws, flexible skulls, and expandable stomachs allow them to swallow prey whole. A Megalania prisca would be surely accept humans as natural prey and would be able to do the same with a hunted down human. And, as i presume, devouring it even alive to safe energy, lubricating its wriggling prey with secreting a high amount of slippery saliva and gulping it down in about a minute...
(Dr. Susan Chantall, "Real Dragons: Man-eating giant reptiles of the present and ancient times", DAMNADAS-Press, 2035)

A second member of her team took this photo as Dr. Chantall started to do a really deep and interesting investigation of the digestive systems of this awesome predator. When we finally catched the beast two days later we found out that digestion took about five days... and the remains of Dr. Chantall came back to the daylight on its natural way. Susan's indigestible remains, mainly some of her larger bones and the partially dissolved remains of her clothing and shoes, are now, cleaned and assorted, presented on public display in our creature-museum... We know that would be her own wish too! Thank you very much, Susan, from the DAMNADAS-crew! This was really a great discovery and we appreciate your intensive work to found out more!


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I wasn't very active in the last weeks due my new job and a horrible flu that got me too... So this sweating, wriggling, kicking, flailing tasty snack is for all you hungry damsel eating creatures out there as my please for excuse... Enjoy your meal
Got some inspiration from fav.me/d4gxjml by ~Kazanlak10

Technical side:
Done in DAZ-Studio 4.6 Pro and PaintShop Pro X4.
Freebie credits: SLR Camera modeled by shima: www.sharecg.com/v/29500/browse… Thank you!

Update Jul. 20, 2013: I got a lot of questions about Megalania prisca... It is basically this model: www.contentparadise.com/produc…
But i "kitbashed" it extensively and made a lot of modifications in Hexagon on it, added a smoothing-modifier, improved the rigging, made a bumpmap and created a lot of new morphs and texture-details. The tongue is new made from scratch too and available here as an independent Poser-model: fav.me/d5z8wl4