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Description
"Snapping Ripper"

The Snapping Ripper is a 5 foot tall bipedal snapping tortoise that became bipedal through becoming more and more terrestrial throughout the years.

Once, it was an aquatic Alligator Snapping Turtle that slowly began chasing prey on land, near river banks, when food in the water was scarce.

It evolved longer legs and began to take a bipedal stance, as it gradually adjusted to chasing prey over rough terrain, such as sandy beaches and mangrove swamps.

As it eventually made grasslands its habitat of choice, it's legs became even longer, with longer arms and with larger claws and a more hooked beak to lock into prey.

Amazingly, these tortoises grew teeth, but these are not true teeth, but instead, long bony growths of their beaks, which have an astonishing convergence to real carnivores' teeth.

The Snapping Ripper's shell, grew spikes on its back that from a distance, look like Pine Bushel Spikes, a type of grassland bush that these predators hide near to ambush herbivores.

They also have tusks on their lower jaw, which they use against other males, during mating season.

They are pack hunters, and their small packs consist of their family unit, usually a female, two offspring, and a big male.

They have become warm blooded and more intelligent, as they have taken over the predatory niche of big mammals that once roamed Gothalebra's Purple Dandelion Grasslands.

They once laid eggs, but more recently some of the larger species began to bear live young, a tactic no doubt evolved to reduce predation from the many egg-eating species of terrestrial grassland sharks.

In the springtime, these very territorial reptiles can be heard bellowing loud screeches, these are haunting warnings signs that they will defend whatever stretch of land they established among the vast regions of the Dandelion Savanah.

Description
"Snapping Ripper"

The Snapping Ripper is a 5 foot tall bipedal snapping tortoise that became bipedal through becoming more and more terrestrial throughout the years.

Once, it was an aquatic Alligator Snapping Turtle that slowly began chasing prey on land, near river banks, when food in the water was scarce.

It evolved longer legs and began to take a bipedal stance, as it gradually adjusted to chasing prey over rough terrain, such as sandy beaches and mangrove swamps.

As it eventually made grasslands its habitat of choice, it's legs became even longer, with longer arms and with larger claws and a more hooked beak to lock into prey.

Amazingly, these tortoises grew teeth, but these are not true teeth, but instead, long bony growths of their beaks, which have an astonishing convergence to real carnivores' teeth.

The Snapping Ripper's shell, grew spikes on its back that from a distance, look like Pine Bushel Spikes, a type of grassland bush that these predators hide near to ambush herbivores.

They also have tusks on their lower jaw, which they use against other males, during mating season.

They are pack hunters, and their small packs consist of their family unit, usually a female, two offspring, and a big male.

They have become warm blooded and more intelligent, as they have taken over the predatory niche of big mammals that once roamed Gothalebra's Purple Dandelion Grasslands.

They once laid eggs, but more recently some of the larger species began to bear live young, a tactic no doubt evolved to reduce predation from the many egg-eating species of terrestrial grassland sharks.

In the springtime, these very territorial reptiles can be heard bellowing loud screeches, these are haunting warnings signs that they will defend whatever stretch of land they established among the vast regions of the Dandelion Savanah.