Leaning Towercrusta

The towercrusta within the Dass-Clarke Temperate Sea during the Yannickian Period adapted so well that all remaining "regular" towercrusta were forced out of the area, and effectively no more remained here within several thousand years. The ones that remained became known as the leaning towercrusta.

The leaning towercrusta's evolution was two-fold. First, the juveniles have gained a whipping flagellum that allows them to find better spots in which to spend the rest of their lives. This "tail" eventually is reabsorbed into the body once they find a sufficient spot to spend the rest of their life. The energy regained from it is then used to elongate and strengthen the proboscis as well as grow larger barbs along its length to make them even harder to remove from their holdfast. Secondly, mature forms now sit tilted, allowing them to photosynthesize better due to more area directly in the sunlight.

Leaning Towercrusta cover much of the space in direct (an somewhat indirect) sunlit portions of the region. This is aided by the fact that all other microscopic photosynthetic organisms in the area are currently free-swimming.