Marsh Mouth 

A hunter of Aquatic prey is proving successful on the worlds coasts

Marsh Mouths are large (750-800 lb) descendants of the Scissor Mouth. Among the largest carnivorous Terra Squids and certainly the largest living species it is not a hunter of large game its teeth and beak poorly suited for bitting into large prey and their stilty raised feet are not built to run. 

Instead, this bear-like squid is closely tied to the water. With strongly built limbs and hooked teeth, it is able to hunt large aquatic prey from the water. Even the largest of Pangea's two’s aquatic residents. Even the Lunge Gars and Silverswimmers are on the menu for Marsh Mouths restraining prey with their feet and biting down on it with their mouth tentacles in a fluid grasp as opposed to related Vicemouths who as their name implies bite with a clamping motion. When restrained prey is dragged to shore. Once moved to a more comfortable eating space prey is eaten alive the Marsh Mouths' feet are covered in hardened scutes of skin to protect from the pincers and teeth of struggling prey.

This way of hunting takes many months of practice and Marsh Mouths have one of the longest periods of parental care for any Terra Squid with the 2-4 pups a mother has in the spring spending an entire you with their mother learning the ways of life for their species mothers will often drag smaller prey for cubs to practice restraining on. 

Well, solitary animals as adults Marsh Mouths still evolved recently from social animals and are not territorial to others of their species and can be found throughout the Coastal Lowlands all the way up the coastlines of the forests on the east and west coast. This widespread geographic range makes them the most successful large carnivore their populations are higher than their more infamous big game hunting relatives.