Gorgonas

== Overview ==
Gorgonas are large creatures that typically can be seen sleeping, grazing, digging, and climbing all across Maroona's land.
== Features ==
=== Anatomy ===
When fully grown, they can reach sizes of about 17 feet tall, and have a shell similar to an Earthly pangolin, but they don't really need it due to their stone-like skin. Their faces consist of a sharp extension on the forehead from their armored back, that leads into a sort of horn-like appendage which helps them dig, as well as two large eyes, with eyelids that can lock in place while digging, allowing sight and protection like a knight's visor. Their mouths are beak-like, with their lips being serrated in order to stop dirt from entering them, while their real teeth are flat, like an herbivore's. They make their nests in underground systems by tunneling with their large, razor sharp digging claws. 
Adolescents are only about 5 to 6 feet tall And aren't as duarble.
Babies are about the size of a small dog, and don't have fully developed shells or beaks.
=== Life ===
After hatching, they begin digging small tunnels in order to practice for their later years. By the time they turn the age to become adolescent (6-16 years) they will start looking for others to breed with, having as much as 10 eggs in their underground nests. After their offspring grow, they are considered an adult, and switch from staying in their caves to adopting more nomadic behavior, wandering for as far as they please.
=== Diet ===
Their diet consists of swampy greens, and other vegetation from swamps, but when there are not any plants around, they can also eat smaller creatures and large insects. They can go for months without drinking water, and have an area in their back, stored in their shell area that holds "emergency backup" water.
=== Reproduction ===
While not having a mating season like most animals, breeding typically takes a few days for insurance of a healthy clutch of eggs.
== Trivia ==
* They prefer walking bipedaly.
* They are mostly docile creatures, not feeling threatened if another creature is near. The few exceptions to this are if it is wounded, if you are near its eggs, or if you seem threatening. The best way to seem benign is to avoid loud noises, staring directly into it's eyes for too long, or trying to touch its claws.
* Their remains are usually used for fortification, as their shells are very tough, and are placed on large walls for extra protection.
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