True, but if it's mutating anyway, why not mutate it into a giant too?
And thus is born squidipus because a squid ate a mututating octopus. Yeah.
Usually ingesting something doesn't result in combining DNA and mutations, but if the octopus had developed mutagenic ink or blood in the process of its own mutation, that would work. That is if you want to get into the technical bits of it. If not you can always have someone go "THERE'S A GIANT SQUIDIPUS THAT'S TRYING TO KILL US AND YOU WANT TO GIVE A BIOLOGY LESSON??!" and handwave all the mechanics.
(I'm thinking 1800 legs. For fun.)
Oooo. Like a big sea urchin, but wiggly and grabby instead of sharp. :-)
You could have it traverse short stretches of dry land like that. It could hold its breath and just roll along in a giant ball of legs, mashing things flat.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:32 am (UTC)True, but if it's mutating anyway, why not mutate it into a giant too?
And thus is born squidipus because a squid ate a mututating octopus. Yeah.
Usually ingesting something doesn't result in combining DNA and mutations, but if the octopus had developed mutagenic ink or blood in the process of its own mutation, that would work. That is if you want to get into the technical bits of it. If not you can always have someone go "THERE'S A GIANT SQUIDIPUS THAT'S TRYING TO KILL US AND YOU WANT TO GIVE A BIOLOGY LESSON??!" and handwave all the mechanics.
(I'm thinking 1800 legs. For fun.)
Oooo. Like a big sea urchin, but wiggly and grabby instead of sharp. :-)
You could have it traverse short stretches of dry land like that. It could hold its breath and just roll along in a giant ball of legs, mashing things flat.
Kraken! Hee! Very appropriate