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|creator = Disgustedorite
|image = Megalosheh.png
|ancestor = Sansheh
|habitat = Barlowe Temperate Rainforest, Barlowe Temperate Woodland, Oz Temperate Beach
|size = 8 meters long
|locomotion = Tripod, Erect Legs and Tail; Juvenile: Biped
|support = Endoskeleton (Chitin)
|diet = Herbivore ([[Obsidibarrage]], [[Obsidibend]], [[Mainland Fuzzpalm]], [[Mangot]], [[Qupe Tree]]); Larvae: Detritivore
|reproduction = Sexual (Male and Female, Eggs and Larvae)
|respiration=Active (Microlungs)
|thermoregulation=Endotherm
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|species = grandis
|meaning=great unusual-elephant
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'''Megalosheh''' split from its ancestor and became larger, making it one of the biggest saucebacks to ever live (and certainly the heaviest). While there were several factors to this occurring, the biggest of them is its tail. Calling back to the two-tailed saucebacks of long ago, the
Being so large, the Megalosheh no longer needs to stand up to eat from trees, simply raising its beaked trunk to pull down leaves. However, it will balance on its tail to knock down trees for younger members of the herd to feed from. Similar to its ancestor, doing this helps control populations of black flora which otherwise block too much light from reaching the undergrowth. It has a large fermenting gut, which is visibly located in its chest area, as unlike tetrapods which have their lungs in their chest and the guts behind them, saucebacks have their guts in the same segment as their legs and brain and the lungs behind that.
The Megalosheh, in order to reach the point where they are consuming flora and therefore able to reach adult size more quickly, metamorphose much faster. While eggs still take 4 months to hatch, the worm-like detritivore larva stage lasts only a single month before their legs erupt, though it takes another month for them to be developed enough to stand, at which point they join a herd. They usually join their
Megalosheh activity has caused the [[Mainland Fuzzpalm]] and [[Qupe Tree]], already having been spread to the beach by the [[Seashrog]], to also spread inland into [[Barlowe Temperate Rainforest]] and [[Barlowe Temperate Woodland]].
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