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The genetic instability the [[Chasing Twintail]] inherited from its ancestor would continue to plague its descendants. The '''Weird-Boned Twintail''' split from its ancestor and developed perpetual bone cancer in its twin backbones. Though referred to as "cancer", they generally cannot grow large enough in an individual's lifespan to spread. Still, their position is rather precarious; it only survived this development because their placement caused the resulting growths to form upwards, creating irregular skin-covered neural spine-like structures rather than slowly paralyzing it. These proved to be fairly useful in deterring predators, however, and allowed the Weird-Boned Twintail to continue a trend towards smaller sizes.
The Weird-Boned Twintail
Like its ancestor, the Weird-Boned Twintail has a frankly rather excessive number of nipples, over 100 total. This allows it to have a very large number of offspring at a time. Its maximum breeding rate has gone up to about 12 times a year. Its gestation lasts mere days, the initially fetal offspring grow large enough to leave the pouch when they are only one week old, and they become independent at two. They initially live off of smaller prey such as tiny [[ukfauna]], but slowly move on to bigger and faster prey until they are fully grown at 3 months. Though it can still burrow, its perpetual bone cancer makes subterranean life more difficult, so the Weird-Boned Twintail is more likely to repurpose burrows made by larger fauna.
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