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And they come in an endless array of forms!

Here we see two very strange creatures of the Timorian Spire fields, one an aberrant dinosaur, the other an even odder amphibian. But which is which?

The Blue-streaked Mump (top) is a large, sociable ostrich-sized bipedal amphibian of the Ranamonarchid order, descended from the same semi-aquatic hoptoads which would also give rise to ranatees. Unlike ranatees however, Mumps have backed out of their semi-aquatic habit and become largely terrestrial once more, feeding on shellfish and crustaceans they unearth with their long tusks, which derive from the oversized teeth of marine forms but now curve forwards and up. Perhaps the most unique feature of these unique shoreline scavengers however would be their four-tentacled trunks which function to replace the forelimbs they long ago lost to evolution. Originating as snorkels, these dexterous appendages now serve to root about for small invertebrate prey animals and to pry open shellfish like the arms of a starfish.

It only makes sense that in a world where frogs come to resemble dinosaurs that dinosaurs would converge to resemble frogs, and so we get the little olive-green, bulgy-eyed hopping tyrannosaurs known as Spings. Here, we see a typical species of this family known as the Ringtail. Though it may resemble a frog, the ringtailed sping is anything but and shares no close relation. Many species of these creatures, none larger than 2 feet in height, occur throughout Servallian tidal zones, where they hop about in search of their main prey, the small juvenile arborhelms themselves which they catch during estivation at low tide. Springing atop a spire, the little creature - which has entirely lost its forelimbs - balances with a long striped tail and chisels into the sealed mucous plugs of estivating young arborhelms with its sharp teeth, which emerge from its jaw and form a strong, calcified beak. Working its strong head like a living pick ax, the small predator pierces through the shell of its prey. A swift stabbing motion of the beak is then enough to disable the crinoid inside, which it then works out with the pincer-like mouthparts and consumes.

Description
And they come in an endless array of forms!

Here we see two very strange creatures of the Timorian Spire fields, one an aberrant dinosaur, the other an even odder amphibian. But which is which?

The Blue-streaked Mump (top) is a large, sociable ostrich-sized bipedal amphibian of the Ranamonarchid order, descended from the same semi-aquatic hoptoads which would also give rise to ranatees. Unlike ranatees however, Mumps have backed out of their semi-aquatic habit and become largely terrestrial once more, feeding on shellfish and crustaceans they unearth with their long tusks, which derive from the oversized teeth of marine forms but now curve forwards and up. Perhaps the most unique feature of these unique shoreline scavengers however would be their four-tentacled trunks which function to replace the forelimbs they long ago lost to evolution. Originating as snorkels, these dexterous appendages now serve to root about for small invertebrate prey animals and to pry open shellfish like the arms of a starfish.

It only makes sense that in a world where frogs come to resemble dinosaurs that dinosaurs would converge to resemble frogs, and so we get the little olive-green, bulgy-eyed hopping tyrannosaurs known as Spings. Here, we see a typical species of this family known as the Ringtail. Though it may resemble a frog, the ringtailed sping is anything but and shares no close relation. Many species of these creatures, none larger than 2 feet in height, occur throughout Servallian tidal zones, where they hop about in search of their main prey, the small juvenile arborhelms themselves which they catch during estivation at low tide. Springing atop a spire, the little creature - which has entirely lost its forelimbs - balances with a long striped tail and chisels into the sealed mucous plugs of estivating young arborhelms with its sharp teeth, which emerge from its jaw and form a strong, calcified beak. Working its strong head like a living pick ax, the small predator pierces through the shell of its prey. A swift stabbing motion of the beak is then enough to disable the crinoid inside, which it then works out with the pincer-like mouthparts and consumes.