Barkerclaw
| Barkerclaw | ||
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| (Castoroptisaurus crustus) | ||
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| 16/107, replaced by descendant | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | BioCat Other | |
| Week/Generation | 16/106 | |
| Habitat | Flisch Temperate Forest, Flisch-Krakow Rainforest | |
| Size | 1.7 m Long | |
| Primary Mobility | Tripod, Erect Posture, Facultative Biped | |
| Support | Endoskeleton (Bone) | |
| Diet | Herbivore (Tower Fernplent, Bullying Fernt) | |
| Respiration | Active (Lungs) | |
| Thermoregulation | Mesotherm | |
| Reproduction | Sexual, Lays hard shelled eggs in burrows, Two Sexes | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Kingdom Phylum Superclass Clade Class Subclass Order Suborder Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Carpozoa Spondylozoa Anisoscelida Pentapodes Caudapodia Eucaudapodia Palapusia Taxodraconiformes Taxodraconidae Castoroptisaurus Castoroptisaurus crustus | |
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The barkerclaw split from its ancestor to roam the forest grounds and left its underground home. Unlike its soft flora-eating ancestor it has evolved many adaptations in order to feed on the hard rubbery barks and wood-like dense parts of immobile tower plents. First its front teeth have grown greatly as well as its upper jaw and face muscles. It has evolved a bony crust all around its mouth to give the needed physical support in order to smash the thick flesh while their massive front teeth pierce through it. Due to this its tasting sense was quite neglected and instead it has evolved a greater smelling sense, mainly to spot its own kind for reproduction. Like its ancestor it kept the sexual dimorphism of the white spots around its eyes as well as a bigger set of bony nostrils for the males.
Their front limbs have decreased in size becoming minor and rarely used. Instead for the few digging tasks they have they use their front teeth. In order to protect their young they still dig the eggs under the ground and lay their eggs there. The young that hatch instinctively dig their ways up for air, though about 20% of them die first from lack of air in the small burrow or because they fail to get outside the ground.
Though they are rather indifferent herbivores they instinctively scare away the velishroots that threaten their young and sometimes even hunt them down.
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