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As the global climate continues to change, many species are forced to adapt or otherwise risk extinction. The [[Rolling Flune]]s are one such example. Without any adaptations towards the chilling temperatures of the polar regions they inhabit, the populations of these ectothermic snappers have been steadily dwindling. Fewer batches of eggs are surviving each year, even despite the parental care showed to them in regards to the males carrying them about within a special indentation underneath their shells. Unlike other species with frog-like eggs which take advantage of the snowmelts of spring, the rolling flune had not, thus its eggs were ever at risk of desiccation. Even adults aren't safe, for even with their partially-hollow shells providing them with some degree of insulation, the same cannot be said for the rest of its body, and its exposed limbs and bellies have difficulty warming up. Combined with a lack of insulation or even size necessary to promote warmth through gigantothermy, winters and early frosts can be deadly to flunes. All of this has caused a sharp increase in the mortality rates of adults and especially juveniles. Faced with imminent extinction, the rolling flunes were forced into a difficult situation, one where they would need to either evolve adaptations towards the cold, or migrate and adapt towards living in a warmer climate.

The '''squeaky gremlin''' is the ~~end~~ result of the choice, descended from rolling flunes native to Colddigger Polar Beach which migrated from those colder regions towards the neighboring temperate ones. There they flourished and grew in numbers, and with time they went on to spread into more tropical beaches as well, eventually coming to inhabit most of the beaches of the Dixon-Darwin supercontinent. While their ancestor had grown larger as an attempt to combat the cold, the squeaky gremlin no longer needs too, and as such it has instead grown smaller. They have developed a distinct pinkish/purplish coloration that helps them to hide amongst the purple flora whose leaves and fallen fruit they gorge upon, thus they are no longer wholly reliant on their shells for defense - why risk holding out against a predator when one can instead avoid them altogether?

The '''squeaky gremlin''' is the result of the choice, descended from rolling flunes native to Colddigger Polar Beach which migrated from those colder regions towards the neighboring temperate ones. There they flourished and grew in numbers, and with time they went on to spread into more tropical beaches as well, eventually coming to inhabit most of the beaches of the Dixon-Darwin supercontinent. While their ancestor had grown larger as an attempt to combat the cold, the squeaky gremlin no longer needs too, and as such it has instead grown smaller. They have developed a distinct pinkish/purplish coloration that helps them to hide amongst the purple flora whose leaves and fallen fruit they gorge upon, thus they are no longer wholly reliant on their shells for defense - why risk holding out against a predator when one can instead avoid them altogether?

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 As the global climate continues to change, many species are forced to adapt or otherwise risk extinction. The [[Rolling Flune]]s are one such example. Without any adaptations towards the chilling temperatures of the polar regions they inhabit, the populations of these ectothermic snappers have been steadily dwindling. Fewer batches of eggs are surviving each year, even despite the parental care showed to them in regards to the males carrying them about within a special indentation underneath their shells. Unlike other species with frog-like eggs which take advantage of the snowmelts of spring, the rolling flune had not, thus its eggs were ever at risk of desiccation. Even adults aren't safe, for even with their partially-hollow shells providing them with some degree of insulation, the same cannot be said for the rest of its body, and its exposed limbs and bellies have difficulty warming up. Combined with a lack of insulation or even size necessary to promote warmth through gigantothermy, winters and early frosts can be deadly to flunes. All of this has caused a sharp increase in the mortality rates of adults and especially juveniles. Faced with imminent extinction, the rolling flunes were forced into a difficult situation, one where they would need to either evolve adaptations towards the cold, or migrate and adapt towards living in a warmer climate.
-The '''squeaky gremlin''' is the end result of the choice, descended from rolling flunes native to Colddigger Polar Beach which migrated from those colder regions towards the neighboring temperate ones. There they flourished and grew in numbers, and with time they went on to spread into more tropical beaches as well, eventually coming to inhabit most of the beaches of the Dixon-Darwin supercontinent. While their ancestor had grown larger as an attempt to combat the cold, the squeaky gremlin no longer needs too, and as such it has instead grown smaller. They have developed a distinct pinkish/purplish coloration that helps them to hide amongst the purple flora whose leaves and fallen fruit they gorge upon, thus they are no longer wholly reliant on their shells for defense - why risk holding out against a predator when one can instead avoid them altogether?
+The '''squeaky gremlin''' is the result of the choice, descended from rolling flunes native to Colddigger Polar Beach which migrated from those colder regions towards the neighboring temperate ones. There they flourished and grew in numbers, and with time they went on to spread into more tropical beaches as well, eventually coming to inhabit most of the beaches of the Dixon-Darwin supercontinent. While their ancestor had grown larger as an attempt to combat the cold, the squeaky gremlin no longer needs too, and as such it has instead grown smaller. They have developed a distinct pinkish/purplish coloration that helps them to hide amongst the purple flora whose leaves and fallen fruit they gorge upon, thus they are no longer wholly reliant on their shells for defense - why risk holding out against a predator when one can instead avoid them altogether?
 == Defenses ==

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