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Bulbasaur - Dicynodon Lacerticeps — Description
Realistic Bulbasaur! This is the first in my Realistic Pokemon series. I promise nothing with regards to time frame, though. Please note, this will involve turning ALL Pokemon into plants, animals, fungi, or other living things. Misdreavus will not be a ghost. Cryogonal will not be a snowflake. Metagross will not be a robot. If that's what you're looking for, search elsewhere, please. Anyway, I've wanted to do this since I was thirteen. 12 years later, when I came across 's work, I figured it was time to do it. But I didn't want to use any particular species more than once, so I figured I'd better go through all of them and decide what they were going to be before starting on any artwork. Aaannd a year later, here we are.

I know lots of people like to make the Bulbasaur line into amphibians, but personally I don't see it. Bulbapedia says it resemble mammal-like reptiles such as Dicynodon and frankly that's good enough for me. So they didn't have horns, but they could have. Hell, for the sake of argument, I'll just pretend they cutaneous horns: those would be less likely to fossilize, so there we are. The Oddish on Bulbasaur's back (more on that below) is a tulip that doesn't flower. Yeah, yeah, it's "supposed" to be a radish, but I've never seen a radish with leaves like Oddish's. Oddish's leaves resemble tulips much more closely. I didn't bother too much with the background (obviously). Those things take too long.

Facts about Bulbasaur:
Bulbasaur has small tusk it uses for digging. Its horns allow it to headbutt foes with ease. From the "bulb" on its back, it can release powder to poison or stun would be predators. If one should catch it, Bulbasaur has dark green "scales" on various parts of its body that are filled with venom. The “bulb” on Bulbasaur’s back is in fact a forme of Oddish. Bulbasaur was probably once a ground type, which would have made it relatively easy for the grass type Oddish to implant itself. But instead of acting as a parasite, the two have existed in symbiosis for aeons. The Bulbasaur line’s tough body provides protection for the weaker Oddish line. But the Oddish’s photosynsethesis provides extra nutrients for the Bulbasaur. This has become such an advantage that Bulbasaurs without Oddish no longer exist. Once, it was thought that Bulbasaur itself was of the poison type whereas the “bulb” on its back accounted for the grass typing. However, recent DNA studies have shown the “bulb”’s DNA to be identical to Oddish, and that Bulbasaur’s poison comes from Oddish’s roots. Thus, Bulbasaur before Oddish was neither a grass nor a poison type, but as mentioned above it was probably a ground type, which explains its tusks.