In these scenarios, the Shellbill has one of two options it can take. On occassion, prey outmanuevers its predator and swims away. These sensors allow Shellbills to track even the slightest hint of movement in the water, giving them perfect timing with their strikes. Like how Earth crocodiles and alligators have sensors on their snouts to detect prey, Shellbills have similar sensors lining their bills.
Shellbills lack any visible eyes, so how this works sounds confusing to uninformed researchers. When hunting, Shellbills approach their prey much like how a heron or stork would: By standing perfectly still.
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Their most favored meal are mollusks and shellfish, in which they utilize their massive bills to crack open their shells and suck out the delicacies. Most of what they catch are waterborn creatures like fish, amphibians, and small reptiles. Shellbills are omnivorous animals, not being too picky with what they stuff into their craws. In the end, only its head plumage and legs remained untouched by evolution. Their wings developed into fins to allow better mobility when chasing prey in the rivers they inhabited.
Its body feathers were shed to reduce drag while swimming. However, due to changes in their environment they had to adapt to survive solely in the water. They sported actual bird-like features, such as a feathered body and a longer wingspan. Their most distinct characteristics are their fish-like body mostly devoid of feathers and their turtle shell-like bills.Īt some point in Makazi's past, Shellbills were drastically different from their modern selves. A piscine flightless water bird indigenous to the Glunaught planet, Makazi.
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