Spiney Sauceback

The population of vicious saucebacks soon began to boom and some, due to too much competition, were pushed to the edge of the temperate forest and even out of it. The savannas are much hotter, and sources of food are few and far between compared to the rainforest, and to compensate they needed to easily snare anything they could get, thus the advanced and terrifying jaw that keeps whatever it can grab. To aid the saucebacks' overheating bodies, they soon began to develop a few ways to combat the heat. The dominant form was the large spines on the back that acted as heat sinks, pulling the heat away from the center of the saucebacks' bodies. Spiney saucebacks are in competition with their cousins, the leaping saucebacks, even preying on them sometimes. There is nothing able to stand up to a spiney sauceback, except a pack of leaping saucebacks or groups of large plents.