Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and
Speaker 1: this is the Monster Fact, a short form series from
Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow Your Mind, focusing in on mythical creatures,
Speaker 1: ideas and monsters in time. This week, with the help
Speaker 1: of my son's Sebastian, I'd like to return to the
Speaker 1: world of Pokemon. This week, we're looking at Dreepy Sebastian,
Speaker 1: would you tell us a little bit about drea by
Speaker 1: three by the Lingering Pokemon, a dragon in ghost set
Speaker 1: found in the Gallery Regions blowing its rebirth as a ghost,
Speaker 1: Pokemon threeb wanders the areas that used to inhabit when
Speaker 1: it thrived in prehistoric seas, Notable for its boomerang shaped head.
Speaker 1: Dreapy a bolsh Into jac and Jack a pool un evolved.
Speaker 1: Dreapy actually served as companions to are the loc and jackapoard.
Speaker 1: During battle. The Dragonpolt even launches some out of hors
Speaker 1: on its horns like missiles. Don't worry thing of it.
Speaker 1: Sebastian's primary source here was Pokemon dot Com, but I
Speaker 1: also looked at some of the facts that are presented
Speaker 1: in the Pokemon Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook. The interesting
Speaker 1: thing about dreepies design is that this prehistoric pokemon is
Speaker 1: clearly modeled after a very real prehistoric amphibian that lived
Speaker 1: during the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian, the diplocalis.
Speaker 1: They were Lepo spond ali, notable for their salamander like bodies,
Speaker 1: eel like tail, and bizarre boomerang shaped skulls with tabular horns.
Speaker 1: Hypotheses regarding the function of these strange heads very greatly.
Speaker 1: The various hypotheses include that they may have been used
Speaker 1: for external gill protection, as a counterweight, as a skin
Speaker 1: flap to support ray like morphology and locomotion. Uh they
Speaker 1: might have been used as a burrowing tool, a respiration aid,
Speaker 1: a defense structure to keep the diplocalis from being swallowed
Speaker 1: alive by predators. And there's also the hypothesis that it
Speaker 1: may have functioned as a hydrofoil for navigating in the water.
Speaker 1: These various interpretations provide different possible snapshots of the three
Speaker 1: point three foot long or one meter long creature as
Speaker 1: both a predator careening through the water column for prey,
Speaker 1: but also as a prey species itself. Narrowly avoiding the
Speaker 1: gullet of larger predatory creatures by simply presenting too weirdly
Speaker 1: shaped a mouthful. The Diplocalis is so strange looking in fact,
Speaker 1: that it has burrowed its way into the world of cryptozoology,
Speaker 1: with the occasional video and photo hoax or misinterpretation suggesting
Speaker 1: that the creature may still be alive in our world
Speaker 1: despite going extinct at least two hundred and seventy million
Speaker 1: years ago. Thanks again to Sebastian for helping me out
Speaker 1: with this one. Tune in for additional episodes all of
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