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Doodledex - #705-A Hisuian Sliggoo

While there's no outward change to the Goomy that lived in Hisui, the same can't be said for their evolution! Thanks to exposure to high concentrations of iron in the water there, Hisuian Sliggoo are Steel/Dragon types and have developed a large, round, metallic shell! (And yeah, this technically makes them snails instead of slugs.)

However, unlike normal snails that only keep their organs in their shell, Hisuian Sliggoo holes its entire body up in there, with only its head and arms sticking out! It seems like this would make it awkward to move around... but when it needs to go fast it will retract all the way into its shell, stand itself up on its side and roll away!

#pokemon #doodledex #sliggoo #hisuian sliggoo #while iron kinda exists in the bodies of most organisms #(vertebrates especially: it's what makes our blood red!)#an iron shell isn't actually all that strange!#the scaly-foot gastropod is a kind of deep sea snail that really does have iron in its shell!#(and as its name implies in the scales on its foot as well!)#these guys live around hydrothermal vents... which also happens to be where they get their iron!#well more specifically they wind up releasing iron sulfides released by the special bacteria in their bodies that help them process the uh.#vent soup? as the scales and the outer layer of their shell. because apparently snails usually can't handle sulfur all that well #but thanks to this the snail doesn't die of sulfur poisoning AND gets armor out of it!#(one of these iron sulfites is pyrite! there are snails with fool's gold in their bodies and that's pretty darn neat!)

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