Today at school (UVU), I attended a workshop presented by Terryl Whitlatch. It was awesome and I learned a lot. She is an amazing artist and her knowledge of animal anatomy is mind blowing. At the workshop she had us create an animal that lived on a fictional planet which either inhabited a cold climate or a hot desert climate.
I combined a warthog, a rhino and an elk to make a strange beast that could probably run pretty fast and defend itself with its tusks and horn.
Some other creatures I came up with during the workshop.