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ookaookaooka · 3 months ago

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im trying to think outside the feathers/skin/scales/fur box for my specbio world so now my sophonts have mucus-y wet oxygen-absorbing skin like salamanders and there's also a bunch of elephant-sized critters that excrete a waxy substance that builds up into armor like butternut woolly worms

#thalia #thalians #spec bio #i know woolly worm wool isn't armor it just sucks to bite #my thinking was that originally it would be for that and then as the species got bigger and went from a small herbivore niche to #a megafauna herbivore niche it would adapt the wax to function as armor (vs predators parasites thorns etc)#they also have a big wax pad on their snout that they use to push down vegetation to eat #and it helps trap water next to their skin #(since thalia has extreme tidal flooding the majority of animal species are amphibious)

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