Mooncrest Hammerhead

The mooncrest hammerhead split from its ancestor and migrated to BigL Tropical Coast. They live in enormous swarms that march across the seafloor. These swarms will attack and eat any fauna that are smaller than them. The swarm does provide the mooncrest hammerhead with safety in numbers, but it also allows them to fight off predators that are slightly larger than them; in which if a large neuk, larvaback, scuttler, or dartir attacks the swarm, the swarm will fight back with all of their might. If they kill the predator, they will eat it, alongside any fallen swarm members. If they come across a corpse, they will feast on it. On land, this can only last a short time before they have to return to the water, but in the water, they will eat until there is nothing left. The mooncrest hammerhead has developed spiracles on its crescent-shaped crest. This, along with primitive lungs, allows them to breathe out of water. However, they can only spend a limited amount of time on land, because they still need to keep their gills moist. Every year, during a full moon, mooncrest hammerheads will mate and spawn in mass. The larva are tiny zooplankton that drift around BigL Tropical Coast until they become too big to drift around and sink to the sea floor. Young hammerheads will seek out others of their own kind and age, creating a new swarm. Mooncrest Hammerheads live for about five years, if they aren't eaten first.