Shell-bot

This is the shell bot. It lives underwater in shallow lakes and oceans. This picture here shows it folded up next to its nest.

 This is its nest. Shell-bots usually lay 7 to 13 eggs. The gray things are eggs.

This is how the shell-bot grows up from an egg. It hatches as a small gray version and slowly loses its gray color as it grows up. Once it turns 17, it starts to get its green spots. The older the shell-bots get, the more green spots they have. A normal life-span for a shell-bot is about 400 years. The way a shell-bot keeps track of its young is by shining the big light on its back. Its young see this and it helps them find their parent. A shell-bot leaves its parent whenever its parent thinks that the young shell-bot is ready to survive by itself.

This is a 120-year old shell-bot with its fangs out. The way shell-bots get food is by laying a web (yes, it can lay webs), and waiting for crabs or fish to get stuck in it. The shell-bot then eats up its prey with its powerful fangs and swallows it.

This is a shell-bot's egg pouch. The pouch can hold up to three eggs. Shell-bots have no males or females.