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Growing to immense proportions, even bigger than its relative, which it split off from, the [[strainbean]], the '''giant shovelhead''' is a lazy creature that spends most of its life drifting aimlessly through the open oceans simply collecting sunlight. To supplement its diet, it still collect tiny organisms as it breathes in the water, but this is more like a secondary food source now. If you want to see one active, you'll have to come during a sunny day. At night or under clouds they don't move at all, to conserve energy. They can go weeks without any sunlight by just staying still and drifting with the current. Once a year, they will seek out a mate. They use special modified baleen sensors to pick up the scent of the opposite gender and slowly move their huge paddles and drift until they find a mate. Once they have, both mates will release their genetic material and hopefully produce some offspring. They then spend about a month staying near the new babies, which are still the same little filter-feeders to start, until they are larger enough, then they will each drift on their own until it's time to mate again.
Growing to immense proportions, even bigger than its relative, which it split off from, the [[strainbean]], the '''giant shovelhead''' is a lazy creature that spends most of its life drifting aimlessly through the open oceans simply collecting sunlight. To supplement its diet, it still collect tiny organisms as it breathes in the water, but this is more like a secondary food source now. If you want to see one active, you'll have to come during a sunny day. At night or under clouds they don't move at all, to conserve energy. They can go weeks without any sunlight by just staying still and drifting with the current. Once a year, they will seek out a mate. They use special modified baleen sensors to pick up the scent of the opposite gender and slowly move their huge paddles and drift until they find a mate. Once they have, both mates will release their genetic material and hopefully produce some offspring. They then spend about a month staying near the new babies, which are still the same little filter-feeders to start, until they are larger enough, then they will each drift on their own until it's time to mate again.

Because of how slow they move, and how spread out they can get, individuals may not mate for years because they could not find a mate. Most of the little babies do not make it to adulthood. Because of their slow rate of travel, things tend to collect on them. To prevent things from collecting on the top, which is how where they get most of their food, they use what's left of their electric shocking ability. They don't, however, care about what collects on the bottom of their bodies.
Because of how slow they move, and how spread out they can get, individuals may not mate for years because they could not find a mate. Most of the little babies do not make it to adulthood. Because of their slow rate of travel, things tend to collect on them. To prevent things from collecting on the top, which is how where they get most of their food, they use what's left of their electric shocking ability. They don't, however, care about what collects on the bottom of their bodies.

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Rutrumcaput_natoapricationis.png|Original image without water effects by [[User:Oviraptor|Oviraptor]]
Rutrumcaput_natoapricationis.png|Original image without water effects by [[User:Oviraptor|Oviraptor]]
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Revision as of 04:26, 21 September 2021

Giant Shovelhead
(Rutrumcaput natoapricationis)
Main image of Giant Shovelhead
Species is extinct.
15/101, gamma ray burst
Information
CreatorOviraptor Other
Week/Generation12/79
HabitatJujubee Open Ocean
Size22.8 m Long
Primary MobilityUnknown
SupportUnknown
DietFilter-feeder, Photosynthesis
RespirationUnknown
ThermoregulationUnknown
ReproductionSexual, spawning, two genders
Taxonomy
Domain
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Rutrumcaput
Rutrumcaput natoapricationis
Ancestor:Descendants:

Growing to immense proportions, even bigger than its relative, which it split off from, the strainbean, the giant shovelhead is a lazy creature that spends most of its life drifting aimlessly through the open oceans simply collecting sunlight. To supplement its diet, it still collect tiny organisms as it breathes in the water, but this is more like a secondary food source now. If you want to see one active, you'll have to come during a sunny day. At night or under clouds they don't move at all, to conserve energy. They can go weeks without any sunlight by just staying still and drifting with the current. Once a year, they will seek out a mate. They use special modified baleen sensors to pick up the scent of the opposite gender and slowly move their huge paddles and drift until they find a mate. Once they have, both mates will release their genetic material and hopefully produce some offspring. They then spend about a month staying near the new babies, which are still the same little filter-feeders to start, until they are larger enough, then they will each drift on their own until it's time to mate again. Because of how slow they move, and how spread out they can get, individuals may not mate for years because they could not find a mate. Most of the little babies do not make it to adulthood. Because of their slow rate of travel, things tend to collect on them. To prevent things from collecting on the top, which is how where they get most of their food, they use what's left of their electric shocking ability. They don't, however, care about what collects on the bottom of their bodies.

Gallery