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[Doomduckie]

Giant Mantis Shrimp.

Look that fellow up on TED Talks and tell me you don't want to see a creature that can hit with supersonic jabs equivalent to a .22 caliber bullet, punching something so hard it glows for nanoseconds due to some crazy science thing like the water around the punch being vaporised and heated up to the temperature of the sun, incidentally causing shockwaves to follow split seconds afterwards and smash open whatever it hit. I'm not even making this up, look it up. The shockwave apparantly stuns or kills you even if it misses- it has supercavitating fists.

Or supersonic spear-thrusts depending upon the type. Giant so they don't just mangle thumbs of dwarven fishermen and crush snails but actually climb onto land and start crushing people's chests, since in the real world sadly they're too small to be dangerous to large animals.

Other interesting info: Their eyes are the best eyes ever. They have compound eyes divided into layers, each layer specialising in a certain thing like "Ultraviolet Light" "Polarised Light" "Visual Spectrum", etc. Their eyes constantly swivel independently on stalks in order to scan different layers over the range of their vision, especially as they only need 1 eye to see with Depth Perception unlike humans.

If you are there they can see you and will come for you. It'd be the aquatic GCS except it'd have way cooler ways to die. I'd go out of my way to fight them in adventure mode.

[Puzzlemaker]

Wow, you aren't kidding.  Yeah, those need to go in.  Badly.

Holyyy crap.

[Hoborobo234]

They'ed nerf everything, you'd have named whales and shit because some poor humpback, would get lucky and destroy one with its tail or something

[Puzzlemaker]

Check this video out of it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWxAfl0okE&feature=fvw

[Doomduckie]

The Giant Mantis Shrimp punches You in the Chest. Your Third Left Rib Is Driven Into Your Heart! Your Fourth Left Rib Is Pulverised! Your Left False Rib Is Pulverised! Your Spine Explodes!

You Have Died.

[Dakk]

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Around 400 species of mantis shrimp have currently been described worldwide; all living species are in the suborder Unipeltata [5]. They are commonly separated into two distinct groups determined by the manner of claws they possess:

* Spearers are armed with spiny appendages topped with barbed tips, used to stab and snag prey.
* Smashers, on the other hand, possess a much more developed club and a more rudimentary spear (which is nevertheless quite sharp and still used in fights between their own kind); the club is used to bludgeon and smash their meals apart. The "punch" delivered has roughly the acceleration of a .22 caliber bullet.[6][7] The inner aspect of the dactyl (the terminal portion of the appendage) can also possess a sharp edge, with which the animal can cut prey while it swims.

Holy crap, thats awesome. We need those in now, both in normal and giant forms.

Giant Smasher Mantis Shrimp.
Giant Spearer Mantis Shrimp.

[penguinofhonor]

Penguins. We need penguins.

[Vattic]

Ostriches anyone? from what I hear they kill a fair number of people every year with their powerful kick. I don't know if I'd call them awesome, awkward maybe though.

[Rowanas]

LLAMAS!

[Itnetlolor]

Ostriches anyone? from what I hear they kill a fair number of people every year with their powerful kick. I don't know if I'd call them awesome, awkward maybe though.

I believe that's an Emu.

Nasty birds, they are.

[Sordid]

Who cares? They need to be rideable in any case, though. And this one looks more dwarfy, somehow:



Also, I stand by my idea of sandworms (possibly as megabeasts) and other large burrowing creatures. Sarlacc, anyone?

[Shima]

Sarlaccs are HUUUGE, but they don't move (They're semi-sentient plants; even have roots).

I added giant worms in the past (See my sig), although I added them more in the idea of Graboids.  Let's face it, large, super-fast, tentacled (And even the tentacles have mouths!) worms.  Awesome.  That's not even going into the life-cycle.

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[Enzo]

Sordid, that last image will haunt my dreams. Positively frightening.

Personally, I would like to see rhinos. No image required, everyone already knows how badass rhinos are.

[Sordid]

Sarlaccs are HUUUGE, but they don't move (They're semi-sentient plants; even have roots).

So much for the better, you can build your fortress around one and use it as an execution/refuse pit without fear of it breaking loose and wreaking havoc.

[Bouchart]

DF needs more gelatinous/blob like creatures.  Also giff.