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Type Species: Basilograptus Caribdai

Height: 22 meters/ 72.18 feet (25 Meters legs fully stretched out)

Length: 31 meters/ 78.74 feet

Weight: 150 tons

Adaptation: Pressurized Air

Description: A large arthropod possessing an anachronistic body plan. Its bodying being made of segmented pieces like that of the extinct anomalocarids. Also like its possible kin, it possesses the clawed frontal appendages. Having the same clawed protrusions allows it to puncture or cleave what it catches and to then funnel the food into its mouth. For prey it cannot cut with its appendages it uses its developed claws to strike and rake apart resilient victims. As the creature has adaptations to be an ambush predator its legs help with this. Not a feature that Anamalocarids evolved, these limbs help in powerful drifting through water and induce drag. This allows a creature as massive as Basilograptus to float motionless through the water after building up momentum and striking at what gets close. Possessing six eyes, their compound nature does not provide amazing vision but there are able to work as a lure. Through bioluminescence they can lure creatures drawn to the light before striking

Powers: Able to store air withing the segments of the exoskeleton. This air can then be pushed out with specialized muscles to give a boost of speed for escape, catching prey, or augmenting its strikes for strong blows.

Benefits: The musculature of the bodies has allowed scientists to developed strong piercing weapons to contend with monster threats

Description

Type Species: Basilograptus Caribdai

Height: 22 meters/ 72.18 feet (25 Meters legs fully stretched out)

Length: 31 meters/ 78.74 feet

Weight: 150 tons

Adaptation: Pressurized Air

Description: A large arthropod possessing an anachronistic body plan. Its bodying being made of segmented pieces like that of the extinct anomalocarids. Also like its possible kin, it possesses the clawed frontal appendages. Having the same clawed protrusions allows it to puncture or cleave what it catches and to then funnel the food into its mouth. For prey it cannot cut with its appendages it uses its developed claws to strike and rake apart resilient victims. As the creature has adaptations to be an ambush predator its legs help with this. Not a feature that Anamalocarids evolved, these limbs help in powerful drifting through water and induce drag. This allows a creature as massive as Basilograptus to float motionless through the water after building up momentum and striking at what gets close. Possessing six eyes, their compound nature does not provide amazing vision but there are able to work as a lure. Through bioluminescence they can lure creatures drawn to the light before striking

Powers: Able to store air withing the segments of the exoskeleton. This air can then be pushed out with specialized muscles to give a boost of speed for escape, catching prey, or augmenting its strikes for strong blows.

Benefits: The musculature of the bodies has allowed scientists to developed strong piercing weapons to contend with monster threats