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The angiopod, Flos hydraulicus, is a plant who’s evolution traces back almost half a billion years. It is a non-sessile plant, meaning it does not stay in one place its whole life. It walks around on its flowers, leaving pollen in a trail on the ground. Another angiopod later crosses that path, and the pollen fertilizes its seeds.

The angiopod moves via a series of hydraulic tubes in its legs, body, and neck. It operates in a similar way to some machinery. A relative of the angiopod,  Ambulans pneumaticae, has evolved to substitute air instead of water for its tubes, allowing it to survive in much drier climates.

The angiopod has very few natural predators. Carnivores never eat more than one of them, quickly finding they contain no meat. Herbivores ignore them, thinking them to be either animals, or just not worth their trouble to chase down. Insects are the primary predator of angiopods, some of which climb into their grill and siphon away the plant’s nutrients.

The angiopod is a single-year plant. Growing to full size in nearly a week, it germinates in late, warm spring and dies at the first frost. However, if kept in a warm, wet climate, it can survive for up to three years before wilting and decaying.

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The Red Deep Sea Flatworm, Taeniasis rosea, lives deep in the ocean under immense pressure. It operates entirely on diffusion to obtain energy, and is between two millimeters and one half millimeters in length. It sometimes attacks plankton by attracting it with light produced by bioluminescent bacteria in its flare spots, then latching onto it and secreting a digestive enzyme. In great numbers, T. rosea can cause humans and other comparatively large creatures to lose feeling in the affected areas for a short time.

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The Avore Roamer, Planuspod avorus, is a microbivore. It was named for its lack of apparent mouth. The Roamer substitutes filters on the front of its face, which it dips into the water and scrubs out algae with. Interestingly, the filters extend all the way down its neck and onto the front of its chest, to maximize surface area. It lives in wet grasslands, and can easily gallop across both dry and wet terrain.

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The Machtheft Pitcher grows inside of machinery, thriving especially well in hot, steam-filled places. It attaches to the roof of a machine and grows a gear to steal mechanical energy into viable chemical energy. Its pitcher is used to catch bugs for its nitrates, and its skin is porous to accept water in without roots.

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The Sea Sticker parasite floats around in the ocean near the bottom. When it comes into contact with a host, it uses its sharp primary teeth to latch into its skin. Then, the secondary teeth begin to siphon blood into themselves and the absorbent flesh, supplying the Sea Sticker with nutrients.

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The sail leaf plant, Onerariam avem, is quite the interesting thing. It lives in sandy or soft soil environments, and only in warm climates. When growing conditions are bad, it uproots itself and sails on its leaves to a new location. It reproduces asexually, detaching all of its leaves and allowing them to propagate elsewhere.

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