Talk:Gasopod/@comment-24.244.90.247-20150810153450/@comment-107.223.130.147-20160104020556

It's hard to tell. The leathery "plates" make it seem like an exoskeleton (like the bone shark and sandshark). However, they look more like artificial plating... sort of like a rhinocerous has thick folds of skin that looks like armor, but actually has an internal skeleton.

I'm not sure our species classification would count towards some of these creatures, because many look like a mix of things .. insect (arthropods/invertebrates) with mammalian traits, piscean (fish) with lizard traits, etc, etc.

Just watching the creatures hang out and do things in their natural habitat is one of the interesting parts of the game. Each animal seems to have some basic AI programmed into it to mimic a real creature with their own nuances and such. I really hope they expand on that by making them unique in their behaviours and such.