Generation 2
Organism Name: Tentacle Blob
Description: The Tentacle Blob is a significantly more advanced creature than its evolutionary ancestor, the Seafloor Blob. The most important advantage it has adapted is its tentacles, which are long, purplish growths erupting from its body. Despite having a body only about a centimeter in length, the tentacles of a Tentacle Blob can grow to be as long as ten centimeters, flailing wildly in the current (the Tentacle Blob lacks muscles and as such cannot manually manipulate their limbs). Along these tentacles are special outgrowths that can absorb plankton and other simple creatures, which are used for energy and then expelled via the only internal organ of the Tentacle Blob, an anus.To supplement its main diet, the Tentacle Blob still retains some of the cell-absorbing skin cells of the Seafloor Blob, now located towards the bottom of the creature to eat the scraps of meat that fall from dying free-swimming blobs.
Reproduction: The Tentacle Blob releases male cells into the water, which then find other Tentacle Blobs and latch onto them. The cells themselves have small "shells" that protect them, and when they attach themselves to other Tentacle Blobs the shell forms into a powerful armor that protects them as they grow. After a few months, the armor recedes and the cells detach from their "parent" and become fully formed Tentacle Blobs.
Threats: Predators have yet to emerge, but a few blobs have learned how to flow in the open ocean via a primitive gas propulsion system. In time, they may develop a carnivorous nature.
Environment: A shallow sub-tropical sea. Some plant life has evolved, mostly simple fronds, whereas animal life is limited to the Tentacle Blob and their free-swimming cousins.
Adaptions:Tentacles, Bottom-Feeding, Waste Disposal, Protective Shells for Wandering Male Cells, Protective Armor for Developing Blobs.