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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas and monsters in time.

This week with the help of my son Sebastian, I'd like to return to the world of Pokemon.

This week we're looking at Dreepee.

Sebastian, would you tell us a little bit about Dreepee?

Dreepee, the lingering Pokemon, a dragon in Ghostite, found in the Galar region, pulling it to rebirth as a ghost Pokemon.

Dreepee wanders the areas at used to inhabit when it thrived in prehistoric seas.

Notable for its boomerang shaped head, Dreepee evolves into Jalok and Jagapot.

Unable Dreepee actually serve as companions for the Loken Jagapot.

During battle, the Jagapot even launches them out of horse on its horns like missiles. Don't worry, think of it.

Sebastian's primary source here was Pokemon.com, but I also looked at some of the facts that are presented in the Pokemon Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook.

The interesting thing about Dreepee's design is that this prehistoric Pokemon is clearly modeled after a very real prehistoric amphibian that lived during the late

carboniferous to the late Permian, the Diplocalis. They were lepospondylide, notable for their salamander-like bodies, eel-like tail, and bizarre boomerang-shaped skulls with tabular horns.

Hypothesis regarding the function of these strange heads, very greatly.

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