![]() The megasquid soon passes under some trees, where a group of squibbons are sleeping. It returns to lumbering around the forest. When it reaches a tree, the slithersucker makes it sneeze, and the squid is freed. In " The Tentacled Forest", a megasquid is lured in by a slithersucker in the guise of a lichen tree pod, and has its body taken over. However, occasionally the tables are turned somewhat, and squibbons will taunt passing megasquid from the trees, throwing things at them and swinging around. The slithersucker tricks the megasquid into eating it, and then takes control of the giant squids central nervous system by inflaming its brain, and causes it to sneeze, sending bits of the slithersucker around the forest. Megasquid are used by slithersuckers as a method of dispersal. Megasquid use their anterior 'arm' tentacles as hands, grabbing food with them, and generally using them as tools, for tasks such as moving obstacles. The sounds are made when a megasquid breathes in a certain way. ![]() They produce different sounds, from low grumbling or humming to a loud boom. Megasquid communicate with each other via large blue vocal sacs on the forehead area of their mantles. Megasquid can live up to a maximum of fifty years, at least partially thanks to the lack of large land predators on Pangaea II.Ī megasquid browsing on swampy vegetation. If megasquid moved in any other way, they would overbalance or trip over themselves. They are very slow, and have a very specific way of walking-the front and back right legs are moved forward with the middle left legs, and then the same the other way around. The tree capsules are commonly targeted because of their bright colour-megasquids have excellent colour vision. It will eat anything that presents itself, from lichen tree capsules, squibbon, and disguised slithersuckers. The megasquid is a slow, omivorous animal. To keep itself from drying out, the skin of megasquid secretes some kind of liquid. The skin of a megasquid is generally brown, with lighter stripes on some individuals. The skin of a megasquid is not what one would expect from a squid-it is tough and rhinoceros-like. They breathe through their vocal sac, which is connected to the anus, suggesting that the stomach is in the same tract as the lungs. The megasquids entire digestive and respiratory systems seem blended together. The megasquid uses these sacs to generate deep, booming calls for communication. On the front-centre of the mantle, above the megasquid's face, is a large blue vocal sac. The anus would appear to be at the back of the animal, just under the mantle, and the location of the reproductive organs is uknown. Set in the very centre of this network of legs is the megasquids beak-like mouth. Unlike the highly evolved legs, these tentacles are similar to the tentacles of a modern day squid. In addition, it has two tentacles at the front of its body, which are used as arms, picking up and manipulating food. These legs are composed entirely of circular, vertical rings of muscle. ![]() Its eight limbs have evolved into 1/3 metre thick, column like legs, reminiscent of elephant or sauropod legs. However, everything below the mantle is strange and foreign. The small brain is located just behind the eyes. This mantle is porous, as air can flow through it to reach the lungs and keep the animal alive. The main body is the most like that of a squid, with a large mantle and small eyes. Physically, it appears to be very different to regular squid-however, save for a few differences, they are very similar to a squid, but tilted vertically. The megasquid is four metres tall, and weighs eight tonnes. Like the swampus, the early terasquids dragged themselves across the land, but the megasquid's ancestor eventually developed legs. The megasquid in particular appears to have evolved because of the lack of large land animals. With many empty ecological niches, it was the squid, not the octopuses, which evolved to be the dominant animals. However, they only truly began to evolve and diversify after the 100 million AD mass extinction, which wiped out most large life-forms on earth. The cephalopods have been slowly adapting for life on dry land since 100 million AD, with the large Bengali swampus octopus.
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