>>5398654Rather than continue vomiting from a pouch in the mouth, natural selection by reflexive, sometimes unfortunate pincers has seen a significant change. The pouch in the mouth has grown tiny and vestigial, but deep within the Flounder Feeder, behind its core muscles and just above its burdensome tail, a large, internal sack organ has developed. Below, a simple tube connects it to a sealed hole similar to the nose flap, a primitive birthing canal. This allows the Flounder Feeder’s offspring to grow much larger than their ancestors’ before release, a critical edge that has seen their population only cut in half instead of reduced to a fraction of its former prominence. No longer vomitors, the species is now divided between releasers and birthers.
Much less important is the emergence of a new minor organ near the stomach, present in both sexes. It’s largely useless and serves to store waste from the stomach before it’s expelled from the mouth, as is the norm for the narrow band ecosystem, but the benefit from this is questionable as they occasionally burst when the Flounder Feeder is damaged. Needless to say, this tends to cause a lethal infection. Most of the deaths from this are only edge-cases but it’s still a matter of some concern.
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