EVOLUTION ATTEMPTS: Camouflage- 4
(okay got it up, don't have the largest amount of time)
The riverine shoalcore is very similar to its ancestors. However, it lives upriver, in the tangled growth of clogweed and bubblegrove. It has tassles on its body to disguise it as vegetation and it is murky green.
The guidelings and hives are, still, basically the same. However, they too have grown tassles and changed colour.
Various grazers live amongst the masses of vegetation. Clogweed is a type of plant that grafts itself to others of its species, forming a dense web of life. Exposure to light, water or air changes its adaptations, such as a low-light weed specialising to become root-like. Bubblegrove is a plant that grows up from thin stalks. On the end of the stalk is a bubble filled with hydrogen. These aren't light enough to fly off on their own, but even a tiny amount of wind can send a detached bubble to far-off places. Larger bubbles are beginning to inhabit the atmosphere, absorbing moisture from the air with tiny hairs.
GENERATION 15:
Riverine shoalcore
A murky green-and-brown tassled fish-like animal that hunts in the low visibility of the estuary. They swim with their powerful tails and use their fanged tentacles to attack and kill their prey. They grow up to 20 centimetres long, and their offspring are called tentaclets.
SENSES: It has a sense of touch that lets it figure out if it's touching food, and an extremely good sense of smell/taste. Symbiotic guidelings help it find live prey. A keen electrical sense lets it find creatures that are close to it, and it can feel vibrations in the water from moving creatures.
REPRODUCTION: It lets out male cells when they meet a mate they approve of, and growths grow inside of the womb. Tentaclets follow their mother until they can be dropped off at their hive. They eat mucus that the hive creates and, when they are large enough, find a suitable guideling to make a nest with.
MOVEMENT: They move by swimming like a fish. Sacs of carbon dioxide keep them buoyant. They also have jets which also function as their gills, which they use to make fine movement.
EATING: It impales small animals and digests them by drawing them into the tentacles. They are able to prey on fast swimmers, and they use venom. Most of their food is from grazing worms and the dense vegetation.
PREDATION: We are mostly unpredated.
COMPETITION: The dense growth means there are very few predators of our size. Dwarf spearfaces are the main competition, still.
ENVIRONMENT: A murky shallow estuary. Various species of worms (collective small ancestors of aciblobs and crawlers) burrow in the muck or swim around to filter-feed or hunt. It is usually fresh-water, although tides can cause an influx of salt.
NEARBY ENVIRONMENTS: muddy estuary, fast-flowing river, massive lake past land bridge
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