HOME | DD

Description
The xenoungulates can be called the "slimmer cousins" of the hornskulls. They are indeed close relatives of this group and share many similarities, like the bagpipe organ (albeit more prpmitively built in xenoungulates), the vestigial middle legs, which serve in communication in this group and the advanved grinding jaws. Xenoungulates are very diverse in shapes, ranging from rabbitlike plain- and forest-dwellers to antelope-like animals. Like their larger relatives, most of them lave thick, armorlike hides on their backs, mostly as a protection from the UV-radiation they are exposed to in the open plains. Their upper jaw is shortened while the skull extends to the front with the front eyes being at it's proximalend, creating a very distinctive eye pattern in this group; while the front eyes can look at what the animal is eating, the middle and hind eyes can watch out for predators and signals from herd members. Most of the species live in loose groups at least, few are solitary.
Plain fakerabbit: one of the many rabbit-like species that lives in the plains and feeds on softer plants than the everywhere-present midgardroots.
Marshstrider: found in swamps and marshes, this species and it's relatives feed on soft water plants and now and then on an aquatic tentaculopod.
Mountain rockgnawer: A mountain-dwelling species and good climber, it's dietary habit of feeding on stonemoss gives it's face an appearance similar to the not related tankfish.

Description
The xenoungulates can be called the "slimmer cousins" of the hornskulls. They are indeed close relatives of this group and share many similarities, like the bagpipe organ (albeit more prpmitively built in xenoungulates), the vestigial middle legs, which serve in communication in this group and the advanved grinding jaws. Xenoungulates are very diverse in shapes, ranging from rabbitlike plain- and forest-dwellers to antelope-like animals. Like their larger relatives, most of them lave thick, armorlike hides on their backs, mostly as a protection from the UV-radiation they are exposed to in the open plains. Their upper jaw is shortened while the skull extends to the front with the front eyes being at it's proximalend, creating a very distinctive eye pattern in this group; while the front eyes can look at what the animal is eating, the middle and hind eyes can watch out for predators and signals from herd members. Most of the species live in loose groups at least, few are solitary.
Plain fakerabbit: one of the many rabbit-like species that lives in the plains and feeds on softer plants than the everywhere-present midgardroots.
Marshstrider: found in swamps and marshes, this species and it's relatives feed on soft water plants and now and then on an aquatic tentaculopod.
Mountain rockgnawer: A mountain-dwelling species and good climber, it's dietary habit of feeding on stonemoss gives it's face an appearance similar to the not related tankfish.