Today’s #Spectember concepts come from three submitters: anonymous, Jonas Werpachowski, and Novaraptoria.
![A digital illustration of a speculative future aquatic bird descended from hummingbirds, laying on its belly. It has a long beak with tooth-like serrations that give it a crocodilian appearance. Its body is penguin-like, with large flipper-wings, and it has relatively tiny webbed feet and a stubby tail. Its plumage is iridescent green and white, with a bright purple patch on its throat.](https://nixillustration.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/spec22-03a-humdertaker.png)
Despite having a convergent resemblance to penguins or gannetwhales, the humdertaker (Suchomergus pollinctor) is actually a distant descendant of modern hummingbirds.
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