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|creator = Nergali
|image = Shantak.png
|ancestor = Shortfaced Thornback
|size = 3.4 m Long
|habitat = Fermi Desert, Fermi High Desert, Fermi Temperate Beach
|support = Endoskeleton (Bone)
|diet = Carnivore ([[Drakablo]], [[Rootdigging Thornback]], [[Voracious Anklebiter Thornback]], [[Snapjaw Thornback]], [[Smackback]], [[Thumbwalker]], [[Spinebacked Probeface]], [[Durambi]], [[Curazzell]], [[Dartirs]], [[Vermees]]), Scavenger
|respiration=Active (Lungs)
|thermoregulation=Ectotherm
|reproduction= Sexual, Two
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|genus = Roseatisaurus
|species = nodensi
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Perhaps the greatest evolutionary advantage the solitary shantaks involves their reproductive strategy. As water is scarce and [[cryobowls]] unreliable as long-term nurseries, the inhabitants of Fermi island required a new strategy. The shantak was one the few to solve it. Evolutionary, this process took many, many generations, with countless mutations and dead ends along the way, until some shantaks were able to produce hardier eggs that didn't require water to be raised in. These leathery-shelled eggs, not unlike those of the [[Baron Signaltail|certain species of signaltail]], hatch into miniature versions of the adults and provided a massive advantage for these creatures over others. This has allowed the shantaks to spread deeper into Fermi island, as well as tolerate its more arid regions.
Young shantak are provided no parental care outside of the hiding of their eggs into the sand for both protection and incubation. Instead they must fend for themselves, hunting [[dartirs]] and [[vermees]], until they are old enough to hunt larger prey. Those that do survive long enough to do so will become predators without equals and the dominate hunters of Fermi island.
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