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Alien ''squid'' finished

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Custom Sculptris "Material" created by :iconnicksketch:! Thanks man! ;)

I realize I haven't written any description, so here you go:

it has a "flow through" gill chamner on the top of its body and four semicircular fins. The fins flap with a phase difference, when the lower fins go up, the upper fins go down and vice versa. Sthis makes them more effective swimmers than the squids we are familiar with.

The animal has four eyes, one main pair which is mobile to a limited extent and a more or less fixed secondary pair. The primary eyes are used to judge distance between the animal itself and its prey, and the secondary eyes are used to look out for predators. The giant deep sea relatives of the displayed individual have very small secondary eyes but very big primary eyes.

The mouth is on the underside of the head and the "Y-shaped" appendage is used to catch prey and bring it to the mouth. The "jaws" open sideways and they look like two semicircular grinders and are made of magnetite.

When the jaws are fully opened, they form a boring tool, a smaller version of the drilling head of the tunnel-boring machine. The mouth can rotate 90° to the left and right and dig deep into the flesh of its prey.

A wide variety of species exists, most are predators but some are scavengers and even fewer of them are parasitic. (the parasitic species target much larger animals than themselves and bite off bits of their flesh, leaving circular bite marks on the bodies of their hosts.
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Nicely done !!