Edestus

Edestus (Edd-es-tuhs) is one of the Creatures in the King's Ecology and Cascadia Mod for ARK: Survival Evolved.

Dossier
''This dossier section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor James MacLeod, the author of the Cascadia Dossiers has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creatures.''

 Wild

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this creature. It seems to be a relative of thresher sharks if it's long tail and flukes are any indication, but it's scissor-like jaws are something entirely different. Wild E. forfex uses it's abnormal teeth like a giant set of sheers, slicing flesh from their preferred prey and swallowing it whole.

Fortunately humans seem too small to be considered targets by E. forfex, or I'd imaging the tribes that take to the sea would seem much more like the pirates of old stories, missing limbs and all.

Domesticated

The seafaring tribes I've found seem to value E. forfex for two reasons. The first is that it's an incredibly fast swimmer, easily outpacing their boats. The second is it's seemingly impervious skin, which it sheds like a reptile on occasion. The tribes harvest this sharkskin to make diving suits that seem to make them invisible or uninteresting to other oceangoing predators.

Notes/Trivia
Edestus, along with Andrewsarchus and Sapeornis are the most divergent creatures in the Cascadia mod from the actual fossil record. Little is known about the body structure of Edestus, so the mod team used modern thresher sharks as the basis.