I don't think Barsoomian creatures always had eight limbs. Calots and banths have ten, thoats have eight, ulsios and white apes have six. I think the primordial worm alluded to in Gods of Mars (said to be the ancestor of the animals of Barsoom) had sixteen. It seemed to me that Burroughs just arbitrarily picked a number greater than four for most of his species.
Your Barsoom paintings have always been the visual truth of the series for me, without question.
I don't think Barsoomian creatures always had eight limbs. Calots and banths have ten, thoats have eight, ulsios and white apes have six. I think the primordial worm alluded to in Gods of Mars (said to be the ancestor of the animals of Barsoom) had sixteen. It seemed to me that Burroughs just arbitrarily picked a number greater than four for most of his species.
Your Barsoom paintings have always been the visual truth of the series for me, without question.