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Squelly

The Squelly is an aquatic hybrid cephalopod and cnidaria, the cephalopod being the squid and the cnidaria being the jellyfish. They have evolved to live in colder temperatures to have more prey and food resources. They have moved to the Pacific Ocean, it is cold, salty, and dark. Due to them moving to the colder area of the ocean, they moved more towards the bottom where larger prey live, this explains their 8 inch tentacles (14 inches being their total size) used for protection.

They can live up to three years, grow to 14 inches but can reach 20 inches depending on exact location. They feed off of krill, shrimp, and caviar (fish eggs), they are preyed upon by penguins and elephant seals which makes them secondary consumers. They have long tentacles which are used to sting their prey, they can also excrete ink from the bottom of their bodies. Given these two traits, they can cause tattoo like marks in the creature being attacked and if caught in the eye, they can blind them.

More specifically in the ocean, they roam the bottom hiding in between coral to come out and attack prey. They glow due to the darkness in the ocean, this does make it easier for predators to see them but it does allow them to see through the darkness. A jellyfish having no ears, eyes, nose, or brain, it makes them very simple creatures. A squid is very complex with 3 hearts, a brain, and two eyes, with a complex circulatory system. Our hybrid has one heart and a very simple circulatory system drawing most nutrients and oxygen from surrounding water, ears with above average hearing, one eye, and a brain with average intelligence.