Goblin Speculative Evolution #06
“Called lake goblins just to underline the fact that they live a mostly aquatic life, this species can be actually found in any water near a cave system and not directly connected to the ocean.
Lake goblins’ lifestyle is a midway to one of the Thalassocnus, the extinct marine sloth, and the penguins, spending most of his time diving and/or grabbing things on the bed floor to avoid getting kidnapped by the currents. Even if fully aquatic, rarely they venture out of the water, these creatures do not breathe underwater and that brought them to evolve a really high nose socket. That also heavily changed the way they evolved their brain. Other goblins, as we saw, have “one brain” in the skull and one in their nose. In this case, they’re so near that they can almost be considered just one. This information explains why the creature's senses are totally different from his cousins: The lake goblins are basically blind and deaf, with a sense of smell worse than humans, but at the same time have skin that can feel changes around them on the molecular level. Basically, they have all the sense, all together, in the skin (special focus on the hands). That’s also why they are really hard to catch and to keep alive, but also why they tend to avoid using tools, even if they are a little bit smarter than the cave goblins, or to touch people if it’s not needed... they taste all of that. They can also change their body pressure and metabolism with little issue and are extremely photophobic. They move in large swarms and follow the cold climates when possible, always getting in motion. The two brains are near, as we said, but they now have very similar roles, and that helps them be always awake.. Lake goblins never sleep and always move to prevent freezing, different ways to act are seen in the ones living in or moving through warm environments.
They’re diet is all based on marine creatures but if really hungry they can even think to have extremely brief and uncomfortable raid on shores”