Population: One pair

 

Size: 110-125cm including tail, around 86cm wingspan

 

Diet: A particular fondness for beatles

 

Call: N/A

 

Threat Level: Moderate

 

This gelatinous-headed creature is only known from one pair who appear to take turns hunting to provide sustenance for the other. These shifts seem to alternate every few days with the hunting individual returning every few hours, sometimes laden with a veritable bounty of food and fluid stored in their gelatinous crests. Jellycrests are equipped with a small, serrated barb attached to a stringy, tongue-like proboscis which they can shoot at any angle (even backwards) through their heads to spear prey. The omnidirectional capability of this barb makes this species a highly effective predator, able to catch even the most aerially dextrous prey with relative ease.

 

Their namesake crests lack any kind of organs and instead appear to a type of Siphonophore, animals comprised of many, much smaller organisms. This makes the Longtail Jellycrest the first known land-dwelling Siphonophore, adapted for arboreal life through a series of small air sacs found throughout its crests. Despite being rather vulnerable to becoming mishappen and mangled via physical trauma, the microorganisms that comprise their heads seem able to rapidly reproduce in order to repair and restore damaged tissue.