User blog:Rora Raro/4 Creatures from Expedition

So this blog will be about 4 aliens that did not appear nor mentioned in Alien Planet (2005). No, I will not make profiles on these guys, I will just inform you about them. They all appeared in Expedition (1990). Credits for the paintings go to Wayne Douglas Barlowe. '''1. Beach-Loper''' The Beach-Loper is a docile, omnivorous bipedalien from Darwin IV, a peripheral distantly related to the sea striders. It lives around the Amoebic Sea. It can fall prey to predators such as Beachquills. Their facial trunk has been stated as being vaguely reminiscent to that of the elephant on Earth. They have light blue biolights on their back.



'''2. Keeled Slider'''

The Keeled Slider is a large brown-hued faunal organism indigenous to the muddy mountains of Darwin IV. It rests upon kneeled arms, which it uses to help it slide down muddy banks in its home environment. The keeled slider might be related to the Groveback as both species walk on two front limbs and balances using a single rudder-like limb near the end of the creature's body.



'''3. Rayback'''

The Rayback is a common, predatory, plains-dwelling, liquivorous bipedalien from Darwin IV, first discovered on January 11, 2358, during the First Darwinian Expedition, in Planitia Borealis. It is a leathery-skinned biped with four elongated spines protruding from its broad back. Like all Darwin IV creatures, it does not have any eyes on its triangular head. Instead, it navigates with a barrage of high-pitched sonar pings when needed.



'''4. Ice-Crawler'''

The Ice-Crawler is an ice-dwelling, almost woodlouse-like quadrupedalien from Glacier Cap North, on Darwin IV. Ice-Crawlers can leave behind many drag marks crisscrossed on areas of the glacier, not unlike those of the foothill-dwelling Keeled Sliders. Each individual Ice-Crawler, while found motionless in their winter hibernation, is embedded in a translucent sac which, in turn, can be frozen to the glacier's surface.