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A bizarre alien species (from a series that had some pretty odd aliens already) with biological wheels and detachable flying heads. The two portions are presumably the same species (i.e. not a symbiosis between two types of creatures) and they can regenerate both sections when injured.

Esplin 9466 kept two, named Jarex and Larex, as pets, after finding them unable to be hosts for Yeerks.

BOOK: The Andalite Chronicles
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Animorphs and all related characters belong to K.A. Applegate

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Biological wheels!! No idea if that's possible. Wheels connected to the body would have to "unwind" (like a yo-yo or those toy cars you have to pull back), and I'm not sure how a creature would be able to grow wheels separate from the body.
Granted Mortrons are launching their faces, realism isn't exactly their thing.
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~Pantheon88 Oct 2, 2012
I love this! I could never wrap my head around them in the book, but this is perfect!
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Mood: Love ~joseppe619 May 13, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Their only weakness is a baseball bat.
Fitting.
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~mullent169 Aug 20, 2011
xD LOVE IT!!! lol when i thought of the mortrons i though like giant wheel chair wheels xD not like baby stroller wheels. ^_^
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~SaoirseRanekaera Jul 26, 2011
This is awesome, and almost exactly what I imagined a mortron looked like, except in my head, the heads were more pterodactyl-ish..... your whole gallery is amazing XD You don't see enough "serious" animorph art out there XD

so kudos !
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~Ingiald Jul 15, 2011
Didn't he give them really silly rhyming names to, like Larix and Jarix or something?

Also, were these things really supposed to exist in the regular story universe? I thought they only appeared in that weird patchwork world they made with the Time Matrix. They certainly seemed to fit in there.
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~Monster-Man-08 Jul 16, 2011
The Mortrons are a real species within the Animorph universe, and Esplin 9466 did have a pair as pets (Jarex and Larex), though the ones we saw might not be the "real" ones technically. Just mental projections or whatever that strange dimension was made of.
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~PonchoFirewalker01 Mar 26, 2011
It might skate
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~ava-tobiax Mar 25, 2011
That's not at all how I pictured those boggers, but great job, they look like they wouldn't be propper hosts, that spikey face is down right freaky
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~V-SHO Mar 10, 2011
When I was little I had a book of alien sci-fi creatures rendered by a well known sci-fi artist. One of the species had wheels. The wheels were round like casters and the monopod foot was an upside-down cup shape (almost like a computer mouse) with millions of little feeler things inside that attached and detached from the organic ball rapidly to turn it in any direction. This made it fast and agile because it could change direction quickly. There was a second smaller organic ball in a tiny monopod where the head should be, this ball was used for communication and mating.

In Phillip Pullman's third book of His Dark Materials there was a race of creature that seemed like a cross between bison and motorcycles. Their world used to have a lot of volcanoes and the ancient lava flows made natural smooth roads. Their horns were like handlebars and they had four legs on a diamond shaped frame (one on each side, one front, one back). Their front and back feet had these hooked claws they used to spear and confine giant, super hard, nuts from bigger than red wood trees and the side legs would propel them along until they were moving fast then fold to the side like a bird's. The nuts would be natural spheroid wheels on the fore and aft legs. The oil from the nuts was a natural lubricant for their "axle claws" and they road on the nuts until they cracked and needed replacing. The cracked nuts would be left where they'd make new saplings.
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~Balthizar Oct 1, 2011
Would that first book happen to be Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials? I own a signed copy of that book. I love it! :D
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