Camouflage Beast
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| Camouflage Beast | |
| Scientific name: | Unknown |
| Home Era: | Future |
| Creature Type: | Mammal |
| Appearances: | Episode 3.2 |
| Humans Killed/ Injured: | 3 |
| Returned?: | Yes, falls in after Danny shoots it multiple times. |
Camouflage Beasts are humanoid creatures that arrive through an anomaly, they resemble Aye Ayes from Madacascar. The team is sent to a house where Cutter believes an anomaly will open up. It turns out that one opened up fourteen years before and a creature came through and has remained hiding in the house ever since. This has led to the rumor that the house is haunted. What has helped it evade capture is its ability to instantly camouflage itself against any background. also, the creature is extremely agile and fast, and it seems to be able to speak a kind of primitive language, as it whispers things sometimes when it's alone. Only one comes through an anomaly, but once the anomaly closes it is trapped in the house for fourteen years. When the anomaly reappears the creature seems to return to the future through it, but then jumps out again and attempts to maul the team. It is shot muliple times by Danny Quinn, then falls back into the anomaly. It is unknown if it survived. (Episode 3.2)
[edit] Behind the Scenes
As a future creature, this beast is completely fictional. It is clearly a derived form of primate and its design is heavily based on the Madagascan aye-aye. So strange looking is this animal that native mythology holds it to be a symbol of death. The camouflage abilities that it is given do not exist in mammals (so far) but is similar to the skin color control that cuttlefish exhibit.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the first creature that Danny Quinn encounters.
- This creature, like the Smilodon, emerged through an anomaly before the ARC team was formed.
- This is the fourth creature from the future that the team has encountered.
- This is the only creature whose future world is entirely unknown, as the homeworlds of all of the other future creatures have been seen.
- Originally, this creature was called a Gremlin by fans. However, after all official sources refer to it as a Camo Beast, the name Gremlin was forgotten about.
- Most of the future creatures have been mentioned to have evolved from present animals but the Camo Beast has not been mentioned to have evolved from an animal
| Series 3 Creatures |
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| Pristichampsus • Coelurosauravus (Rex) • Future Predator • Small Future Bird • Camouflage Beast • Diictodon (Sid and Nancy) • Clones • Velociraptor • Giganotosaurus • Fungus Creature • Terror Bird • Dracorex • Megopteran • Larvae • Embolotherium • Deinonychus • Pteranodon • Australopithecus |
