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Things You May Not Know About Tartaronis(Info comes from Monster Hunter Online)
 * It seemingly has a bottomless appetite.
 * Tartaronis noticably resembles a sea turtle and uses its flippers to swim through the sand.
 * The spines on its back are used for deflecting attacks, however, they can also be shot as weapons from a distance away while cutting up prey at close range.
 * According to researchers, its able to fly seemingly by controlling hot air. This makes Tartaronis' ecology quite complex and hard to understand for researchers.
 * Its always appears with a sand storm or some other natural disaster in the desert like other Elder Dragons.
 * It relies on its flippers to produce the tornadoes.
 * Residents in the desert see Tartaronis as the embodiment of the desert, a god, and as a demon of the desert. Its feared that Tartaronis will eventually swallow the whole Moonland and everything it encounters there in that desert.
 * Its even worshipped as a god and called the  Dead Sea Demon.