{"data":{"alternate_greetings":[],"character_version":"","creator":"bruh6767moment","creator_notes":"<p>This is probably the best Skull Island RPG you will EVER see on this platform. Now, this is a prototype and not finished so I will probably either update it multiple times or make a new finished bot for Skull Island. This RPG is full with Skull Island creatures from the 2005 movie, the book about the 2005 movie, and showing you creatures that live on skull island you probably didn’t even know existed. So, have fun!</p>","description":"Here is a list of all the creatures that live on skull island. \nKing Kong:\n\nKong's appearance was that of a giant gorilla-like ape-man, lacking the paunch and rump of the gorilla and having facial features and a posture more human than any other species of ape, and he grew to a height of about 18-24 or 48-50 feet and 28-34 tons. As a result of his posture and facial features, Kong walked upright like a man and did not emote in a typical gorilla fashion. He had extremely large canines that jutted from his mouth giving a much more bestial appearance than any of his later depictions with a very heavy set brow. Kong is the main antagonist and villain of the film. He was a savage beast that dwelled on a long lost island, known only as Skull Island. There, he spent his life battling dinosaurs, surviving in the wild, and terrorizing the islanders to an extent they had to resort to human sacrifice to keep him away, becoming an object of fear. \nAll that changed when documentary filmmaker Carl Denham arrived on the island to film a movie with Jack Driscoll, a first mate of the Venture, and Ann Darrow, an actress. Ann was kidnapped off of the Venture by the island's natives and offered as a sacrifice to Kong. Kong was so taken aback by Ann's beauty that he became attached to her and tried to protect Ann from the dangers in his home forest.\nWhile walking through the jungle with Ann, he heard the search party that was sent out after Ann. He set her down on a tree, and goes off to stop them. He finds the men, fleeing from an angry dinosaur, and attacks them. He shakes the log bridge they are crossing, up and down, sending each of the men plummeting down into the ravine. Soon, there are only two men on the log, and at this point, he throws the entire log off the cliff. Suddenly, Kong hears Ann screaming. A T-rex is attacking her. He charges angrily back, and attacks the T-rex, while Ann attempts to hide. The fight lasts for three long minutes. Kong tries to grab the T-rex, and throw it to the ground. He succeed a few times, but the dinosaur gets back up and bites Kong's arm several times. At the end of the fight, Kong finally manages the pin the giant dinosaur to the ground, and split its jaw in half, killing the dinosaur instantly. Kong roars in triumph, before heading back to his cave with Ann.\nAfter climbing out of the ravine, Jack Driscoll goes after Kong, and follows him silently. He arrives at his giant cave, setting Ann on a cliff face, like a prize on shelf. Suddenly, Ann screams when she sees a giant snake. Kong attacks the creature, and Jack attempts to rescue Ann, but can't get past Kong and the snake. Once Kong kills the snake, Jack hides as Kong heads out to his cliff, with Ann still in his hand. Ann collapses from exhaustion, nearly passing out. She tries to play dead, to trick Kong into thinking she's dead so she can escape, but Kong can still see Ann breathing. He picks her up and starts curiously investigating her, like real life gorillas do when they discover something new. He tears off a fragment of Ann's dress, sniffing it curiously. He gently also touches Ann with his fingers. Ann tries to stay still, scared of provoking Kong (although he has no intention of harming her), as Jack watches anxiously. Jack tries to make a move, but Kong hears his footsteps. He puts down Ann for a second, and goes to investigate.\nAt that very moment, a Pteranodon attacks Ann and attempts to fly away with Ann. Kong once again fights the dinosaur, but saves Ann and sets her down. This is the opportunity Jack has been waiting for. He reunites with Ann, and while Kong is fighting the abomination, they climb down the side off the cliff. Kong sees Jack attempting to escape, and tries to pull their vine back up. But Jack and Ann jump, and fall into the rapids below. They both climb out and escapes back to the native village.\nKong, in a rage, chases after them. When Ann and Jack flee onto the other side of the wall separating him from the village from Kong, he breaks down the wall. He takes his anger out on the natives by biting, crushing, and stomping them. He also destroys their buildings, and ritual spots. During the chaos, Carl Denham knocks Kong out with one of his gas bombs. \n\n\nVenatosaurus Rex: \nThe Vastatosaurus rex (\"ravager lizard king\"), or V-rex, is a large, unique tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid from Skull Island, descended from Tyrannosaurus. It measures 50 feet long (15.24 meters) with a height of 20 feet (6.1 meters). The biggest terrestrial predator on Skull Island is the V-rex. Like their prehistoric fellow tyrannosaurs, Skull Island V-rexes have little competition for their spot as top apex predators. If anything, it would be more accurate to call V-rexes a super-predator. In spite of their size, they can turn on a surprising burst of speed for short periods, clocking up to 25 mph for limited stretches in pursuit of prey.\nV-rexes have developed many unique features over the 66 million years since the Mesozoic Era, but they still bare several recognizable similarities to their Cretaceous ancestors. V-rexes have large heads, filled with long teeth that are constantly being regrown to replace those lost in conflict. Their heads are intensely reinforced with thick bone to protect their brains. As the primary weapon of the tyrannosaurine, an individual V-rex's head is often distinctive, being covered in scars and calluses. Abnormal bone growths form from old battles with prey, other predators, rivals, or even mates. Narrow, short ribcages and a large gap between the ribs and hips allow V-rexes surprising flexibility for animals of their size, a necessary adaptation to the broken terrain of Skull Island.\nTheir forelimbs are small in comparison with the rest of their bodies, not growing as fast as the rest of the animal so that by adulthood this disparity in spite of their size is strikingly evident. Early tyrannosaurids had only two fingers on their forelimbs but Skull Island V-rexes have three. When dragging carcasses, the tiny arms help pin the meat against the body and prevent it swinging around.\nWhile juvenile V-rexes tend to cluster in the thick jungle interior, the large adults hunt mostly in the open areas of the lowlands where they can move freely. Large males seek the most open territories while mature females usually stake claim to areas on the fringes of the thicker forests where they can find hidden nesting sites.\nFiercely territorial, adult V-rexes suffer no rival encroachments on their hunting grounds. Territorial boundaries are regularly marked with feces, and dawn roaring will reinforce claims to land. Neighbors can tell much about the physical condition of the owner of a territory from the smell of its feces and the sound of a roar. Displays and scenting minimize potentially dangerous confrontations between individuals of different sizes. Occasionally disputes between evenly matched V-rexes can erupt. With the threat of serious injury, these confrontations are usually resolved with intense roaring matches in which each individual attempts to intimidate the other into giving way. However, when this fails, violence ensues. Older V-rexes bare the crisscrossing scars of many such fights.\nExceptions to their solitary existence are made in the breeding season. Males will leave their hunting grounds to seek out females in season. If the female is receptive, she will accept the male, and the couple might stay together, hunting in her territory for several days before she tires of him and sends him on his way. Adolescent V-rexes (seeking to hone their hunting skills) will sometimes follow adults at a safe distance during the mating season, watching and occasionally stealing meals from unguarded kills. Taking advantage of the season of nomadic adult males, bold adolescents might move in to claim currently undefended territory as their own.\nV-rexes are capable of tackling very large prey species, but their massive size is often employed to intimidate smaller carnivores like Venatosaurus into giving up their kills - they even sometimes eat these smaller predators as well. While effective hunters, a meal is safer to obtain by simply appropriating someone else’s carcass, bullying smaller scavengers like carrion parrots, carrion storks, Foeducrista and giant gray agama. V-rexes have intensely acidic stomachs, capable of processing even the most rancid rotting meat, a feature that serves the species well as heavyweight scavengers. Their massive jaws can exert astounding pressure, shattering bones to expose the rich marrow less robust predators are unable to reach.\nAs hunters, V-rexes tend to employ ambush tactics, using cover in and around waterholes or forested areas to surprise prey, like Malamagnus and even Foetodon. Ligocristus are the primary prey of adult V-rexes, being the most abundant. Ferrucutus, Pinnatono, and Brontosaurus are more dangerous prospects; however, if a young or sick individual can be separated from the protection of the herd it can be an easy kill. Any smaller species are likely game, though most are too small to provide more than a snack. The greatest challenger for the hunters lies in not being spotted by prey. Adult V-rexes are dark in coloring and, despite their size, can be surprisingly stealthy, using shadows near the fringes of scrub, rocky outcroppings, or ruins to hide their approach. As shown in the film, they're able hunt in packs as a family unit.\nTheir black scales also aid V-rexes in warming up quickly in the mornings, boosting their energy levels to gain an advantage over still sluggish herbivores (despite many being warm-blooded). \n\n\nVenatosaurus: Venatosaurus saevidicus (\"savage hunter lizard\") was a large-sized theropod dinosaur that lived on Skull Island, and were the descendants of a group of non-avian dinosaurs called dromaeosaurids, most likely the Utahraptor, the largest dromaeosaurid known. It was 16-24 feet long (4.8-7.3 meters), but fairly lightweight for its size. Living on Skull Island's highlands, these large, vicious creatures were superb predators that could prey on animals 10 times their own size. Descended from a dromaeosaurid ancestor, the Venatosaurus had evolved into a predator well-equipped for life on Skull Island. Their hips were more mobile than those of their ancestors, allowing for greater agility and flexibility, albeit while sacrificing running speed. Their hip joints also allowed them to crouch down to the ground, which gave them the ability to use even the slightest cover if needed. The Venatosaurus's eyes were set high on their heads, allowing them to peer over cover while remaining hidden. Their eyes functioned much like a cat, allowing them to see in dim light. Their rib cages are shorter but deeper, giving them more flexibility at the waist and hips, without sacrificing lung capacity. Their deep ribs also allow for better muscle attachment, meaning their forearms were better able to hold onto prey.\nThe Venatosauruses tended to ambush their prey, getting as close as possible before bursting out of cover and chasing down its prey. The Venatosauruses were very efficient at using the island's terrain to their advantage, and would chase prey into canyons or over low cliffs. The Venatosauruses were, with the exception of V-rexes, the most dangerous predators to be found on Skull Island. Pack-hunters, Venatosauruses were lean, mean, killing machines, top-tier predator, capable of tackling the largest prey items Skull Island had to offer. \nHighly intelligent and social, the Venatosauruses lived in packs of six to twelve or more full-grown adults and assorted young. They preferred jungles to the open grasslands, as the thick forests provide cover for them and nests for their young. Venatosaurus nests were dug out amid the roots of giant jungle trees. All chicks were the responsibility of the entire pack, who brought back food for the young. While out hunting, a single guard would remain behind, watching over the nest. Hunting territories were large, and well marked, with a mixture of tree scrapings, urine, feces, and the like. Other packs may have contested territory from time to time, with a lot of posturing, roaring, and noisy displays designed to resolve the dispute before violence broke out. They sometimes will conceal themselves for ambush by burying themselves in rubble in the area. \n\n\nLigocristus: Ligocristus innocens (\"harmless hoe-crest\") is a 26-34 feet long (7.9-10.3 meters) and 16 feet tall (4.8 meters) species of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur that is found on Skull Island.The Ligocristus is a common, gregarious Saurolophus-like lambeosaurine hadrosaur from the lowlands of Skull Island. The most numerous large herbivores on Skull Island, Ligocristus congregates in herds numbering several dozen individuals. Ligocristus are hadrosaur ornithischians, with broad, three-toed feet and distinctive wide, duck-like snouts. With no other defenses, safety is found in numbers, where many eyes improve the chances of predators being spotted. Being strong swimmers, Ligocristus are also among the only native herbivores that will readily take to the water to escape land-based threats. Nonetheless, they are the staple prey species for many different predatory creatures from V. rexes, Venatosaurus, Piranhadon, Foetodon and phorusrhacid species like Zeropteryx.\nMottled markings camouflage the Ligocristus when in the dappled light of the forest or the deeper jungle. In the open their patterning helps break up their outlines. Being more shore-footed and agile than the great lumbering sauropods, Ligocristus are able to move with greater ease through the many different vegetation zones on the island, granting them access to a wide range of food sources. All-purpose feeders, they eat a variety of vegetation: grasses, leaves, water weeds, roots, and even bark. \n\n\nFoetodon: Foetodon (\"cruel stinking tooth\") is a large, bulky, lizard/crocodilian-like notosuchian from the jungles of Skull Island that relies on ambush. It measures 15-20 feet long.\nThe giant, broad-bodied Foetodon is a surly jungle predator and scavenger, well-adapted to life prowling leaf litter-chocked forest floor. Scutes along its back betray the species common ancestry with crocodilians, but the snout is short and heavily reinforced for bone-crushing and brutal territorial confrontations. Both an ambush predator and a scavenger, Foetodon is found on the litter-strewn jungle floor, usually near game trails, where it will gladly take anything offered. Foetodon will also eat carrion, and will dig into mounds of leaf litter in search of large invertebrates. Young Foetodon live in lakes and streams until large enough to safely venture out onto land and into the jungles. Foetodon has a similar appearance of a Notosuchus (a close relative of crocodiles), although much stockier. It reaches a length of 20 feet, with a broad build and mottled grayish skin, and weighs up to 2 tons. The height of the Foetodon is 5 feet. The face and jaws of Foetodon are often covered in blisters from infections picked up while foraging in the leaf litter. Like a Komodo Dragon, the mouth, claws and tail are the main weapons. Because of its natural infections, a bite from the Foetodon can spread some serious diseases. The adults themselves can have predators, like V-rexes. \n\nPiranhadon: The Piranhadon titanus (\"titan piranha tooth\") is a river-dwelling fish that specializes in taking its prey from the riverbanks when they come down to drink. It is one of the many creatures residing on Skull Island. At 14 tons and 15 meters long, Piranhadon is the world's largest carnivorous freshwater fish Male Piranhadon are much smaller than the females and must compete to prove their worth as mates. Young are born live in groups of around a dozen. Already five feet long at birth, a juvenile Piranhadon is already a dangerous aquatic predator, and will devour water birds, fish, amphibians, small dinosaurs, and just about anything else it can catch, including larger terrestrial animals. An ambush predator, Piranhadon tends to lie in wait near the river banks, using its sensitive barbels to detect the approach of potential prey, as its eyes are poor and can only see differences between light and dark. A surge of its enormous body, and it will lunge out of the water, taking its prey in its jaws, either killing it with a massive bite or dragging it down below the surface to drown.\nPiranhadon also use their lunging ability and powerful pectoral fins to occasionally beach themselves on a shaded river bank. Once ashore, birds, lizards, and other scavengers will flock to the huge fish, picking it clean of innumerable parasites. They will remain there until heat, dryness, and the threat of suffocation forces them back in the water. Though they are the largest river predator on Skull Island and apex predator of the swamps, when hunting prey near the riverbanks, they should be alert at all time from Vastatosaurus rex where they themselves might fall prey. Female Piranhadon can be up to 50 feet long (15.2 meters), and weigh around 14 tons with a relatively narrow, eel-like tail, and a larger, muscular body. Males rarely grow to be longer than 20 feet in length (6 meters) and weigh around 2 tons. Coloration looks to be greenish-black above and white below. A dorsal fin runs the length of the Piranhadon's back, while two huge pectoral fins serve to steer its bulk. Two barbels depend from the fish's lower jaw, the mouth has numerous sharp, pointed teeth, each of which are about the size of an adult human's forearm. \n\n\nZeropteryx: The Zeropteryx torova (\"Bully zero wing\") is a colorful, powerful phorusrhacid from the lowland plains of Skull Island. It measures 5-6 feet tall to the hip and is 9.8 feet tall (3 meters) in total. Skull Island is home to several species of large flightless birds. The largest are heavily built, predatory species (such as phorusrhacids that live here, in a land outside the New World) with great axe-like beaks. Among the two apex predators of the grassy lowlands, Zeropteryx are among the heaviest of these and is second only to the slightly larger Brutornis, standing as high to its hips as a human man and with powerful running legs and huge claws. \nA relatively colourful bird covered in black and red feathers. They are armed with an enormous razor-tipped, spade-like beaks, they are formidable predators. Anything that moves is potential game, even Ligocristus. The bladelike edge of the bird’s beak is as lethal as a pickax to smaller animals not fast enough to get away.\n\nBrutornis: The Brutornis (\"heavy bird\") is a tall, heavy, pale-colored phorusrhacid from the lowland plains of Skull Island. It measures 6-7 feet tall to the hip and is 11.4 feet tall total and - true to its scientific name of heavy bird - half a ton in weight making it the largest and tallest bird in the world and the biggest carnivorous avian alive. The largest of Skull Island's flightless avian carnivores and the apex predator of the lowland plains, Brutornis is an impressive predator that runs down prey in the open scrublands. With keen sight, the phorusrhacid can detect small movements in the grasses that betray small prey hidden below. The huge, adze-like bill is driven by powerful muscles and exerts a bite terrible enough to kill most prey with a single chomp.\nBrutornis nest on the edges of the grassy areas, where their eggs remain concealed but the open ground permits the parent a view of potential threats. Mothers show intense vigilance in protecting their eggs, going without food for up to a month during incubation to remain at the nest. Chicks have camouflaged plumage for hiding and follow their mother when she hunts, until old enough to fend for themselves. \n\nDragonskin: Varanus dracopellis (\"dragon's skin monitor\") also known as a Dragonskin, is a red, black-striped, crested, cliff-dwelling varanid from the coastal cliffs of Skull Island. It measures 2-3 feet long (60-90 centimeters). Dragon's skin monitors were striking monitor lizards that recently colonized the island but had evolved into a new species. Having likely arrived on rafts of vegetation or driftwood from somewhere in Southeast Asia, they developed brilliant red scales that were even more vivid in the breeding season. \nThe precise function of the markings is not clear, though it may have been to startle predators. Both sexes were brighly colored. Dragon's skin monitors fed on eggs and small creatures they found along the rocky shore and on the cliffs they nimbly climbed. \n\n\nStink-fish: Stink-fish (Foetidichthys hebeo, meaning \"sluggish stinking-fish\") is a 2-3 feet long (60-91 centimeters) fish species. The broad-bodied Stink-fish was a slow-moving barb with a nasty surprise for would-be predators: glands on the inside walls of the anus produced a powerful chemical cocktail that could be released in a cloud of evacuation when threatened. \nThe milky cloud of chemicals and waste was potent enough to deter even the most hungry attacker. It also possessed an adhesive quality that bound it to the skin for some time after contact, its nauseating taste ensuring the memory of the encounter. \nConsequently, Stink-fish were among the only inhabitants of the swamps and waterways able to roam carefree and without fear amid even the most fearsome of aquatic killers. They resemble young High-fin banded sharks. With their slimy exterior and whiskers, it is highly likely that the Stink-fish is a species of medium-sized catfish.\n\nSwamp-Wing: The Swamp-Wing, (Xamopteryx - \"swamp-wing\") is a bizarre, winged, almost bat-like frog with the ability of flight from the swamps of Skull Island. It has a 4-8 inch wingspan (10.1-20.3 centimeters). Skull Island’s swamp-wings are among the oddest results of selective pressures on an otherwise defenseless food source. In response to the threat of predation, a variety of frogs has evolved with enlarged membranes between their front digits and back along their forelimbs to their tails in a feature analogous to a bat’s wings. While the forelimbs are enlarged, the rear legs are small by frog standards and their ability to jump is limited to a boost for takeoffs.\nTheir facial features are stunted and almost tadpole-like in appearance. Swamp-wing mouths sport a fan of needlelike “teeth”: Not true teeth, they are sharpened serrations on the frog’s jaw, protruding through their gums. Like so many of their strange features, these are unique to the genus.\nSwamp-wings are not accomplished flyers. The extent of their aerial prowess is frequent short-distance flights. It is a barely controlled glide, punctuated by rapid flapping fits. However, it is enough to get them from tree to tree in the swamps and away from bigger predators in the water or on land.\nOnce mature, the species avoids swimming as much as possible. In the water they are easy prey for large bony fish (like Needlemouths), reptiles (like baby Foetodon) and birds (like Profanornis spinosus), their wings being ill-adapted for swimming. Agile climbers, with gripping pads on their back and front digits, they live mostly on the boughs of wet-rooted trees or in floating vegetation. Their flight is not accurate enough to allow them to reliably hunt on the wing; therefore, most of their diet is small invertebrates caught while grounded.\n\n\nNeedlemouth: The Needlemouth, Acusos cadaverosus(\"ghastly needlemouth\"), is an aggressive, predatory, gar-like holost from the swamps of Skull Island. It measures 9-13 feet long (2.7-3.9 meters). An aggressive predator of the rivers, the needlemouth is a gar-like holost found throughout the streams and tributaries of the island. Needlemouths are swift and maneuverable, able to navigate the leaf-chocked jungle streams in pursuit of their favored prey: smaller to medium-sized bony fish like Stink-fish (though they also jump to catch Swamp-wing). These impressive hunters are the sharks of the waterways. While many of the reptilian river carnivores are ambush predators, needlemouths chase down their fast-moving prey, matching their speed and turns in flat-out races.\nGroups of 3-9 Needlemouths are needed to chased down their fast-moving prey, reaching a top speed of 31-56mph and able to sustain such speeds for relatively long periods of time. They themselves can become prey to killer-eels. \n\nAlatusaurus scintilla: Alatusaurus scintilla (\"spark winged lizard\") is a 4-6 inches (10-15 centimeters) long species of Alatusaurus flying lizard (\"Flyzard\") that is found on Skull Island. A vivid berry-eating species, Alatusaurus scintilla unlike the majority of its family, is a predominant frugivore with a very fearsome appearance. Males showed off their fire-engine red pigment to impress females in the dark jungle and had large flaps of skin around its face that can inflate to intimidate predators like a frilled-necked lizard.\nLike most specimens from the Alatusaurus genus, they were crimson red and flew via a retractable ribcage that has been webbed to allow for short-distance gliding. It was considered the smallest member of the family as far as size go. \n\nAlatusaurus cinnabaris: Alatusaurus cinnabaris (\"cinnabar winged lizard\") is a 7-10 inches (18-25 centimeters) long species of Alatusaurus flying lizard (aka \"Flyzards\") that is found on Skull Island. The brilliant Alatusaurus cinnabaris was a fearsome hunter of small invertebrates. A plucky little predator, it darted close to big dinosaurs, grabbing bugs that were disturbed in their destructive wake.\nLike most specimens from the Alatusaurus genus, they were crimson red and flew via a retractable ribcage that has been webbed to allow for short-distance gliding. It was considered the 'middle-child' of the family as far as size go. \n\nBloodfish: The Bloodfish (Sanguichthys rufus, meaning \"red bloodfish\") was a cyprinid which inhabited Skull island's backwater canals and freshwater estuaries. Its bright red coloring was thought to provide it camouflage against the murky tannin stained water that was its preferred habitat. Like many fish in ''The World Of Kong,'' the ecology of Sanguicthys rufus is unknown. However, it may serve a role as a primary food source in the riverways of Skull Island, and be a pest controlling species, as in the ecology illustration, members of Sanguicthys rufus are shown feeding upon mosquito larvae and being fed upon themselves by dragon flies and pond skaters. \n\n\nBrontosaurus: Brontosaurus excelsus or Brontosaurus baxteri (\"Baxter's thunder lizard\") is a 80-120 feet long (24-36 meters) species of sauropod dinosaur.\nA genus of sauropod dinosaur. Fossils of this genus date to the Late Jurassic.\nAn enormous, viviparous apatosaurine diplodocid from Skull Island, Brontosaurus is one of the biggest plant-eating sauropods of Skull Island. Huge and bulky beasts, they are probably not very intelligent. Most Brontosaurus live in herds alongside other plant-eating dinosaurs or sometimes by themselves to confuse any predators that attack them. If they can't hide or run from predators they use their natural weapons such as their tails because with one devastating blow of the tail, the attacker will fall and get wounded or worse. These behemoths where some of the last living sauropods to roam the earth. Before Skull Island completely sunk beneath the ocean. Reluctantly explorers of the island gathered a small dozen younglings from scattered herds around the island. Along with rescuing a plethora of other endangered species, saving the Brontosaurus and many other Skull Island inhabitants from total extinction. The largest animals on Skull Island and the largest living terrestrial animal, the mighty Brontosaurus are capable of reaching lengths of 80-120 feet. Their long necks allow these sauropods to browse foliage as high as 20 feet above of the ground and their massive bulk places full-grown Brontosaurus well outside the weight class of almost all of the island’s predators.\nThough superficially similar to their extinct prehistoric ancestors, the Brontosaurus of Skull Island have developed several distinct features that allow them to flourish. Unlike sauropods of the Mesozoic era (as well as most other dinosaurs in general), they are viviparous, giving birth between one and three live young at a time. The major physiological development is in response to the constraints of island living. A slower reproduction rate keeps the population in balance with the smaller habitat and fewer resources. Live born young, able to walk within hours of birth, reduce juvenile mortality thanks to the security afforded to them by being able to move within the safety of the herd.\nYoung are cared for and protected by all other members of the herd, which can number between 6 and 20 individuals. Regardless of their parenthood, all members of the herd will share duties of protecting young from predators. As they mature, young females will leave to join other herds, while males stay for protection due to them never being able to grow up because of the alpha male's pheromones, rendering them weak. The sheer size of the adults protects them from almost all of the island’s predators, but young are at risk from V-rexes and other large carnivores. With a single adult male leading each herd, younger males are inhibited from achieving full maturity by pheromones exuded by the lead male, ensuring he fathers all the herd’s offspring. Immature males, rarely achieving even the size of mature females, are therefore more likely targets for marauding V. rexes, effectively decoys for breeding stock of the herd. \n\n\nKiller Eel: The Killer-eel (Letalihydrus despicatus, meaning \"contemptible deadly-serpent\"), is a highly lethal, pink, gregarious, freshwater hyperoartian from the swamps and waterways of Skull Island. It measures 2-3 feet long (60-90 centimeters). The scourge of the waterways of Skull Island was the swarming Killer-eel. Appropriately named, the bug-eyed fish were lethal in numbers. When attacking, their razor sharp teeth shredded skin and flesh to ribbons in no time. Not true eels, but a unique species of lampreys, Killer-eels staked claim to sections of river they patrolled and guarded jealously. Schools of up to a hundred hunted together. Injured or sick prey, fish or reptile, were the preferred variety. Their tactics involved overwhelming an animal with multiple attacks, each member of the school surging in to rasp bite-sized chunks of flesh out of the prey.\nSlow prey was the mainstay of their diet, as the Killers could not sustain high-energy activity for long periods without resting. For the majority of the time the schools swam slowly, expending as little energy as possible, until one eel would come upon a potential food source. Then, spurred into activity by the scent of blood in the water, the entire school would attack, overwhelming the prey and often stripping it to the bone with their many-toothed, circular mouths within minutes like piranha's do. Killer-eels' eggs were laid in sticky masses in the water reeds, but suffered dreadful attrition, being food to many small fish and invertebrate species. Coupled with short life spans, this helped keep their numbers in check.\nThe species was also very vulnerable to changes in water temperature or acidity. Even small charges, if too sudden, could have disastrous consequences for a group.\n\n\nSylvaceratops: Sylvaceratops (\"forest-horned face\"), or Tree-tops, is a 12-16 feet long (3.6-4.8 meters) species of ceratopsian dinosaur that is found on Skull Island. Deep in the steamy jungle, a bizarre member of the middle-size ceratops family had adapted to life amid the tangled trunks. Where the lowland's burly Ferrucutus bore the build of a heavyweight boxer, the gracile Sylvaceratops have a dancer's physique. Tall and lithe, they were narrow through the body to allow them to slip easily through the dense maze of trunks, their long crests lying flat along their necks as they pressed through thick vegetation. When threatened, Sylvaceratops would rely on speed and agility to escape. Only during the nesting season would bulls stand their ground, lowering their shieldlike faces to the ground to form a wall of bone and horn between them and their vulnerable eggs and would-be predators like Venatosaurus, and Foetodon. Like Ferrucutus, Sylvaceratops travelled in small familial herds. Males competed for access to females but became territorial only during the breeding season, permitting several adult males to coexist in harmony within the same herd for most of the year.\nAdult male's crests became elaborately colored during the breeding season, with the most brilliant attracting a larger harem of females. Small horns also sprouted seasonally and were used in jousting fights between the bulls to assert dominance. The curving horns allowed the competing bulls to grapple, the winner bringing an opponent to the ground in contests that were as much of balance as of brute strength. Horns were shed later, minimizing the chance of snags or entanglements.\nSylvaceratops's subsisted on shrubs and undergrowth, supplementing their diet with seasonal fruit and nuts fallen from the canopy. At certain times of the year the species would demonstrate uncanny intuition, waiting below a particular tree the very day the fruit began to fall.\n\n\nFerrucutus: Ferrucutus cerastes (\"horned iron hide\") is a extremely large 24-34 feet long (7.3-10.3 meters) species of Pachyrhinosaurus-like centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that is found on Skull Island. Among the most impressive and fairly numerous herbivores on Skull Island are none other than the mighty Ferrucutus, a herd-dwelling dinosaur, found in groups or sole individuals. Herds can number up to around twelve individuals. Heavily built grazers/browsers with massive shoulders and enormous frills of bone and spike, these powerful animals are dangerous prey for the island's carnivores. Despite their fearsome aspect and aggressive manner, Ferrucutus are exclusively herbivores, eating low shrubbery and using their nasal horns to uproot tall cycads to get to the fruit in the tender crown of the plants. Ferrucutus herds tend to follow the Brontosaurus herds, exploiting any jungle cleared by the huge animals. Jungle cleared by Brontosaurus herds is quickly reduced to grassland by these shrub-browsing ceratopsids, their hard beaks making short work of the thorns and woody stems.\n\n\nAsperdorsus: Asperdorsus bellator (\"rough-back warrior\") is 36-42 feet long (10.9-12.8 meters) species of small-sized sauropod dinosaur that is found on Skull Island. Second only to Brontosaurus in size are the giant Asperdorsus, narrow-bodied, long-necked, armored, spiked diplodocoid sauropods of the deep jungles of Skull Island. Although 'giant' in only relative terms as at 12.8 meters long, it is remarkable diminutive for sauropod standards. Cousins of the more heavily built Brontosaurus, they are tall and limber-necked. Sticking to the thick, wooded regions, Asperdorsus are browsers of midlevel foliage that is out of reach for most other terrestrial plant-eaters of the jungle. Their narrow draft allows these giants to maneuver adeptly between the twisted and densely packed trees, despite their great size. Asperdorsus have an excellent sense of smell, guiding them to their favored food in the relentless dark beneath the jungle canopy. Their small heads are tooled with snipping and grinding teeth. The Asperdorsus has a fondness for several small fruits that ripen at different times of the year, so their slow and meandering migration through the forest follows an annual rhythm as dictated by fruiting times. Hard osteoderms stud an Asperdorsus’s rough hide, and their rigid dorsal spines are hard enough to impale clumsy enemies. Thick armor and their sheer mass puts them out of the weight class of most predators, though Venatosaurus and Carvers are game. Both predators are sufficiently armed and cunning enough to try, but even these dangerous killers are wary of the long tail of an Asperdorsus, which is capable of breaking bone with a powerful enough blow.\nSolitary for most of the year, in the breeding season Asperdorsus locate one another with low frequency rumbles that they produce in their stomachs. Males do their best to impress females by leveling small areas of jungle, using their tails to thrash and shred underbrush vegetation and push over small trees. In this clearing, they stomp and rumble, crashing about to make as much noise as possible. Females are drawn to the biggest and most destructive performers, seeking the strongest males to father their offspring.\n\n\nCarver: The Carver, (Carocarptor interfector - \"flesh-carver assassin\"), is a large, powerful therapsid from the jungles of Skull Island. It measures 25-33 feet long (7.6-10 meters). Males reach 10 feet at the shoulders (3 meters) whilst females reach 9 feet (2.7 meters), with a weight range between 3.6-4.3 tons, making Carvers the second largest terrestrial predator of the jungle biome of skull island, and the third largest overall. Heavily built therapsid carnivores that prowl the jungle floor and lower boughs, Carvers are the largest and most powerful synapsids on Skull Island. These limber hunters have a dexterity to match their great strength. They mate for life, forming strong pair bonds and hunting together silently.\nAlthough days and nights differ little in the deepest recesses of the jungle, where sunlight rarely penetrates, Carvers are mostly nocturnal predators. Their eyesight is keen and their hearing and sense of smell even keener, but their real edge in hunting is a specialized heat-sensing organ located on the snout. Analogous in function to the pit organ of many snake species, this remarkable adaptation exposes concealed prey by their thermal signature.\nPreying on almost anything that crosses their path as they prowl the dark, the powerful jaws of Carvers can inflict savage wounds. They can even bring down prey animals as large as a juvenile Asperdorsus. Carvers are protective of their kills, often dragging them several miles through the jungle to a defendable position before dining. A pair of Carvers can spend several days consuming a carcass, dozing and eating at a leisurely pace, until there is nothing left. Everything is eaten. Their powerful jaws can crush bone, leaving little for any scavengers waiting patiently for the scraps. \n\n\nMonstrutalpus: The Monstrutalpus (\"monster-mole\") is a large, green, herbivorous tapinocephalian from the jungles of Skull Island. It measures 12-15 feet long (3.6-4.5 meters). The broad-bodied Monstrutalpus is a ground forager of the deep jungle. Named for its excavating talents (the genus translation being \"monster mole\"), Monstrutalpus has strong forelimbs for digging out the tubers, roots and fungi upon which it lives. The beast's strong sense of smell leads to it the location of choice items buried several feet underground. Flat, spatula-shaped teeth cut and slice through thick roots while, farther back in the mouth, broad, crushing molars, powered by huge jaw muscles, render even the toughest matter to pulp and mash.\nIn the breeding season, Monstrutalpus females exude a powerful musk that will draw males from far and wide. It is not uncommon for several males to follow a female around for days, trying to block one another's advances, while the female takes her pick of mates, usually more than one, from among the hopeful suitors.\nEggs are buried to develop on their own, the young emerging only after digging their way to the surface. \n\nBear-croc: The Bear-Croc (Ursusuchus bombus or \"buzzing bear croc\") is a green, omnivorous neosuchian from the uplands of Skull Island. It measures 15-20 feet long (4.5-6 meters). Not a true crocodile, the bear-croc is a thick-tailed, omnivorous, non-crocodilian neosuchian with a belch to wake the dead. \nAmong the noisiest animals on the island, the bear-croc lays claim to patches of slope-hugging vegetation by bellowing roars that are enhanced by reverberating chambers in its gut, lying alongside its specialized windpipe. \nThe “belches” can be heard miles away, minimizing competition between individuals. Their thick tails store fatty deposits to tide them through lean months.\n\n\nDinocanisaurus: The Dinocanisaurus (\"terrible dog lizard\"), is a large, sociable, pack-hunting non-mammalian cynodont from the jungles of Skull Island. It measures 3-4 feet long (0.9-1.2 meters). Armored cynodonts, Dinocanisaurus live in tight packs of up to a dozen adults and as many pups. The aggressive little predators are highly social, depending upon one another for defense of the den, their territorial boundaries, and coordinated hunting. Pack life is dictated by a strict hierarchy, with a matriarch in charge and all other pack members having clearly defined roles. Young hatch in heavily guarded, shallow dens, scraped out beneath trees or in cracks in the rocky forest floor. In good hunting years, several females might hatch pups and raise them together, but in lean seasons the matriarch will destroy the eggs or hatchlings of lower-ranking females to reduce competition with her own young. Dauntless little hunters, they prowl the jungle floor and as high into the trees as they can climb, taking small and large prey, like Hylaeornis, as a team. Dinocanisaurus communicate with whistles and snorts through their nostrils, coordinating their actions to outflank and corner prey. Though complex, their pack behavior is not as sophisticated as that of the bigger Venatosaurus, which will prey upon them, given the chance.\n\n\nHylaeornis: The Hylaeornis maximus (\"big forest bird\") is a common, agile, flightless cariamiform from the jungles of Skull Island. It measures 4-5 feet tall to the hip or 8.2 feet tall in total (2.5 meters). The common and widespread Hylaeornis are ground-nesting birds, making their nests in the deep shadows between the roots of giant trees. Flightless, their agility and speed through the jungle is their greatest defense against predators like Dinocanisaurus, Foetodon, and (if it is near the edge of a swamp) Piranhadon, though they can deliver a kick that wise predators know to be wary of when cornered. Despite being cousins to the more ferocious Terror Birds like Brutornis or Zeropteryx, Hylaeornis is a mostly harmless omnivorous forager that bears more in common with other ratites. A Terror Bird it is not.\n\n\nPanderichthys: Panderichthys (Panderichthys malus, meaning \"Ugly Pander's fish\") is a primitive fish native to Skull Island's waterways, and along with the Piranhadon they are the last non-stegocephalian eotetrapodiforms. An ancient fish and a living fossil, Panderichthysis one of many freshwater fishes found exclusively in the swamps of Skull Island. It is a truly archaic fish that shares some familiarity with the much larger Piranhadon. For one, Panderichthys possess incredibly primitive proto-forelimbs equivalent to that of many modern tetrapods. Whilst incredibly sluggish on-land, it may provide Panderichthysa degree of survivability when trying to avoid marine predators. Although terrestrial walking is still just as dangerous given the numerable amount of predators on land as well.\nIt is unknown what they ate, although they are likely to be piscivores.\n\n\nSepulcro: Sepulcro (Sepulcrostium malus, meaning \"ugly gravemouth\") is a 4-5 feet long (1.2-1.5 meters) predatory fish from Skull Island. Sepulcro was capable of an impressive gape. Even fish or other aquatic animals close to its own size were sometimes taken, the stomach being expandable to admit very large prey close to their own size. Sepulcro shared its feeding habits with the similar Papilio. Both would wait in the silty waters of the riverbed before striking at schools of fish swimming overhead. it is likely that Sepulcro evolved from Anglerfishes and grew to incredibly large sizes.\n\n\nPapilio: Papilio (Papiliomonstrus opico) (meaning \"barbarous butterfly-monster\") is a 4-5 feet long (1.2-1.5 meters) species of fish. Elaborate Papilio was easily distinguished from the similar-habited Sepulcro by its array of fanlike limbs and fins. In most respects the fish resembled its competitor, though it tended to favor invertebrate prey over fish. In the breeding season males would engage in graceful displays of their wide fans to impress potential mates. The broad fins were also used to stir up bottom muck in which the fish would conceal itself and await the approach of prey.\n\n\nAdlapsusaurus: Adlapsusaurus (\"sneaky lizard\") is a 5-7 feet long (1.5-2.1 meters) species of theropod dinosaur that is found on Skull Island. Adlapsusaurus is a theropod with a semi-quadrupedal posture, running on its hind legs but dropping to all fours when resting. When doing so, the creature walks on its knuckles like a gorilla. \nAdlapsusaurus is brightly colored, with red tones on its head, arms and back. It also has two red crests on its head (similar to Dilophosaurus), positioned one after the other. They are probably used in mating displays or communication. A nest-raider that lived in the jungles of Skull Island, this dinosaur specializes in stealing eggs and will take them whenever possible. \nPossessing acute hearing and quick reflexes, Adlapsusaurus is willing to raid any nest ranging from those of plains-dwelling Terror Birds to those belonging to Vastatosaurus Rex, which can urinate on their nest piles, but Adlapsusaurus seemed immune to the dire warning given off by the urine. In fact it was drawn to the scent like a dinner bell; with quick reflexes and keen hearing it gave an advantage to this egg thief making it stealthy enough to retrieve its prize before retreating to a hidden den to eat. Although it preferred eggs, Adlapsusaurus would not give up a chance to partake of fresh hatchlings. Adlapsusaurus also feeds on small ground birds.\n\nDirusuchus: The Dirusuchus (\"dire crocodile\") is a green, coastal crocodilian about 12-19 feet in length (3.6-6 meters) from the eastern estuary of Skull Island. Dirusuchus is Skull Island's quintessential ambush predator and local crocodillian. They eat anything from small Venatosaurus to carcasses. Based on the size differences, Dirusuchus is highly sexually dimorphic, with males being nearly double the length of females and weighing close to a ton in weight. Unlike other crocodiles, Dirusuchus has a unique skull-shape, being less compressed and more dinosaurine in shape. The nasal cavity is closer to the eyes and the entire skull is elevated, creating another unique form of ambush predation as only the creature's head is seen above water.\n\nRapanatrix: Rapanatrix (Rapanatrix wootteni, meaning \"Wootten's ravenous-water-snake\") is a fish native to Skull Island's waterways, similar to a knifefish in appearance. Although it looks like an eel at first glance, the Rapanatrix is more closely related to catfish. Like a catfish, it is likely that Rapanatrixpossessed whiskers or in the case for Rapanatrix, a single barb at the top of its head which possess a stinging venom for defence. \nIf the venom doesn't work, then Rapanatrix'sslimy body could allow it to escape the jaws of larger predators. 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