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Description
A highly-derived starfish from the Middle Triassic in another timeline where echinoderms became the dominant terrestrial megafauna after a nearby gamma-ray burst sterilized most of Earth during the early Carboniferous, destroying the first wave of terrestrial plants and animals and postponing the conquest of land for some millions of years.

Rhodophytes have also colonized land and because of that some animals are red or pink to camouflage among the red vegetation.

The Patricksuchus fills the niche of crocodilians in its ecosystem, and is part of a lineage that went back to water as soon as it evolved the ability to breathe air and walk on land.

The most effective way of killing a Patricksuchus is by ripping out its nerve ring, because they regenerate if they just get mutilated or chopped apart. Sometimes detached body parts or even pieces of tissue can grow into a new individual.

Some large and mature specimens have been seen purposefully cutting pieces of themselves and then protecting their clones and letting them hunt in their own territory, until they reach a certain size. Then they devour them, thus benefitting from the biomass accumulated by all the clones (which feed on prey too small to be worthy to the "parent", basically filling a different ecological niche) "From the one, many. From the many, one"
This conduct hasn't been observed being directed towards non-clonal offspring.

Description
A highly-derived starfish from the Middle Triassic in another timeline where echinoderms became the dominant terrestrial megafauna after a nearby gamma-ray burst sterilized most of Earth during the early Carboniferous, destroying the first wave of terrestrial plants and animals and postponing the conquest of land for some millions of years.

Rhodophytes have also colonized land and because of that some animals are red or pink to camouflage among the red vegetation.

The Patricksuchus fills the niche of crocodilians in its ecosystem, and is part of a lineage that went back to water as soon as it evolved the ability to breathe air and walk on land.

The most effective way of killing a Patricksuchus is by ripping out its nerve ring, because they regenerate if they just get mutilated or chopped apart. Sometimes detached body parts or even pieces of tissue can grow into a new individual.

Some large and mature specimens have been seen purposefully cutting pieces of themselves and then protecting their clones and letting them hunt in their own territory, until they reach a certain size. Then they devour them, thus benefitting from the biomass accumulated by all the clones (which feed on prey too small to be worthy to the "parent", basically filling a different ecological niche) "From the one, many. From the many, one"
This conduct hasn't been observed being directed towards non-clonal offspring.