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Description
Chimeric dinobugs inhabiting a world where an eccentric planetary orbit generates extreme seasonal temperature variations, resulting in scorching "summers" that immolate a significant portion of the planet's surface life--conditions that obviously encourage creative mechanisms for the perpetuation of future generations. Mature adults of this species ensure their progeny's survival by burying their eggs at the core of massive, insulating balls of accumulated herbivore dung. While the searing summer heat bakes the outer layer of the dung balls into a protective, adobe-like shell, the deep inner core remains (relatively) cool and moist. When the larval hatchlings emerge in the spring, an abundance of readily available pre-digested vegetable matter nurtures their growth and metamorphosis into a stronger juvenile form capable of breaking through the rigid outer shell of the proxy "egg."

Coupla variations on a theme (titanosaur-derived panspermic chimerae converging on dung beetles). Still working on it, will Scrap soon. HAPPY JULY! : D

Description
Chimeric dinobugs inhabiting a world where an eccentric planetary orbit generates extreme seasonal temperature variations, resulting in scorching "summers" that immolate a significant portion of the planet's surface life--conditions that obviously encourage creative mechanisms for the perpetuation of future generations. Mature adults of this species ensure their progeny's survival by burying their eggs at the core of massive, insulating balls of accumulated herbivore dung. While the searing summer heat bakes the outer layer of the dung balls into a protective, adobe-like shell, the deep inner core remains (relatively) cool and moist. When the larval hatchlings emerge in the spring, an abundance of readily available pre-digested vegetable matter nurtures their growth and metamorphosis into a stronger juvenile form capable of breaking through the rigid outer shell of the proxy "egg."

Coupla variations on a theme (titanosaur-derived panspermic chimerae converging on dung beetles). Still working on it, will Scrap soon. HAPPY JULY! : D