Armorlug

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Taxonomy
Ancestors and Descendants
Ancestor: Armorjaw
Descendants: Lugbeest

Habitat: Southwestern beaches of North Gemstar and small populations in the east peninsula of Datura

In the aftermath of the meteoric extinction event that decimated many habitats and biomes across the world, a primitive creature was forced to change. The Armorjaw was slowly being driven to oblivion by its more advanced relatives, though the apocalyptic event in actuality saved it. Following after the cocopralm, they adapted their hind four limbs into paddles to make their way through the shallow seas and easily flooded unstable environment. To lighten themselves and as a response to a decrease in predators their armor plates have shrunk and no longer overlap one another. Their strategy of making false eggs has quickly been abandoned, as the waste of nutrients would spell their downfall. They do however coat their eggs in a gummy sticky foam that makes them both float and makes it more difficult for predators to swallow. They have increased in size to around 35 cm in the mostly predatorless environment, and feed mostly on cocopralm seed pods and fallen leaves, though they will also feed on the fronds of revofrondo if they happen to be in the area or there is a lack of readily available cocopralms.