Mudsharks

[Niall]

Found in the Zola Fel delta, are they crocodiles or something else entirely?

[Wolfram Riegler]

I asked the same some monthes ago. One Person (sorry, forgot who did it) send me this picture: . I started to use it for my campaign and it fits perfectly.

[Niall]

I like that, though I’d add a long dorsal fin.

I seem to remember someone years ago suggesting that they were similar to mudskippers, those amphibious fish that can use their pectoral fins to walk on land.

[Pentallion]

The Mudsharks detailed in River of Cradles are smaller versions of the small crocodile given in the RQ3 Deluxe Creatures book. And their method of dragging their victim under water to drown sounds very crocodilish. So a Mudshark is a smaller sub-species of crocodile, much like the African dwarf crocodile.

[Evan Hughes]

The RQ statline is the same as a crocodile, but I think what we have here is a labyrinthodont, an amphibian ambush predator which pre-dates the dinosaurs.

Fun fact; they lived here in Sydney 235 million years ago and grew to about 2.3m in length. Check out the BBC’s excellent documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs for an example of a late-surviving Australian species, Koolasuchus, which grew to 5m in length.

[Niall]

Which is what the picture up-thread is. It fits more with what I imagined Mudsharks to be.

Thanks folk.

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