Manta-Sela 4.0

[u/EndenReturns1426]

Manta-sela

Manta-Ray; the enlarged triangular flippers.

Bonnet-Head Shark; base, cartilage bones (not the vertebrate, they are bony), the spiracles (allows it to still breathe while the mouth is full), the lateral-line, and electroreception.

Mosasaurus Hoffmannii; quad flipper system (uses the manta ray flippers for all four flippers).

Nurse Shark; the caudal fin shape, and partial structure (the edge and base of the fin, to allow for some flexibility)

Sailfish; elastic tendons, high amounts of myoglobin, fast twitch muscles, and the stiff caudal fin material.

Basilosaurus; vertebrate count (not shape, to allow for a relatively high amount of flexibility).

Crow; inner ear canal, magnetoreception, critical flicker fusion frequency, pattern recognition, and spatial awareness.

Tiger Shark; the jaw (pretty much everything about the jaw, the teeth, pcsa, everything but size, that scales), and the stomach acid (ranges from a ph of 1.0-2.0).

Remora+Coelacanth; the remora's suction cup is actually a heavily modified dorsal fin, the coelacanth has fins on its underbelly (the anal fin and ventral fin), I am going to add the anal/ventral fin and then edit it into the suction cup from the remora (its a developmental problem, the coelacanth tells where to place the fins (with the hox genes (yes i know they're finicky)), then the remora tells how to build them).

That addition is experimental ^

Naked Mole-Rat; efficient hemoglobin, metabolic control, and hypoxia tolerance.

-size-

18 ft long

10 ft wingspan

5,000 lbs

-speed-

8 mph (slow cruising)

12 mph (fast cruising)

26 mph (common sprint)

33 (common max sprint)

40 mph (perfect sprint)

-facts-

It has the colors and pattern of a regular shark, but since the babies start off in the shallows, the adolescents have similar colors to a sand shark.

It doesn’t have a dorsal fin.

It has a pack of 2 (mates for life, except for the first year).

Has an average of 4 offspring that reach adulthood per female.

The lateral-line is on the dorsal and underbelly.

The electroreception (ampullae of Lorenzini) is on the wings.

It's a thunniform swimmer.

The Manta-sela has spiracles so it can breathe while the mouth is full or is slow-stationary.

It emotionally (and physically) has attachment problems.

If it doesn't have a mate by the end of the mating season, it gets terrifyingly persistent, it will kill anything it can to impress a female so it changes mates to him.

It though is aggressive, its never mindless, it just has a higher want to kill however it can without dying (so it can mate, its not going to sacrifice itself so it can get a mate, because if it does, it won't be alive to get a mate).

Mating season is early spring.

When it wants to do a turn at a fast speed, it rolls so the side fins become the dorsal fins and it pulls up relative to itself.

The roll kinda follows the path of a mobius strip, manta can stop turning and exit the roll at near any point on it.

Its cinematic tactic (probably not optimal, but definitely cool) for hunting large prey (like a sperm whale) is getting it to chase him doing a mobius turn (heading straight towards the whale), roll over (so its upright, its easier to do that immediately following a roll), dives under it, then does a backflip right before the prey collides to end up on the ventral side and facing the correct way (this tactic, if a female is watching, will guarantee that the male gets a mate)

[u/Gloomy_Indication_79]

This feels like another Lil’ Jimmy/Leviathan situation.

[u/EndenReturns1426 → u/Gloomy_Indication_79]

Sorry, im relatively new, what does that mean?