This alien creature is the descendant of creatures fairly similar to cuttlefish in general body plan. It had two flappy fins on the side of it's mantle which propelled it along which developed into ray like structures which were eventually refined into something not too far off from bone. Eventually some of it's ancestors crawled onto land and bit by bit developed it's fins into a pair of legs to carry it along.





About 30-75cm long and weighing between 5-15 kilos, the Polypolepis is a fairly common sight on two of it's homeworld's four continents. They can get a decent turn of speed on their legs and mostly wander about eating the plants of their home planet, grasping them and with their tentacles and pulling them into their beaked mouths. To shelter against predators and weather, they did holes establishing large warrens. In these they lay their eggs in large quantities. They breed quite quickly and can often be seen snorting strange warbling cries from their nostrils as they prance around showing off their dorsal display crests (which they can fold down when needed) and taking down stomachs full of half digested plant matter to feed their hatchlings. A single Polypolepis can lay up to six clutches of 20 eggs every year, though few live to lay clutches of their own as they are as a rule on the bottom of the food chain. It's not suprsing that these critters are rather skittish and over short distances have an impressive turn of speed.

