Dursheqs

Biology: 

-Due to living on a naturally radioactive planet, the Dursheq's skin has hardened to a stone-like state to prevent boils from destroying their skin. A disadvantage to their hardend skin is that it makes their skin not very flexible, resulting in bones ripping through a Dursheq when they reach a certain age. This is not fatal and has been recieved by the Dursheqs as a coming of adulthood. This breach in the skin happens on the wings, elbows,feet,hands, and on rare occasions the spine. This skelitial metamorphasis is how their claws come to be and are quickly hardened, due to the same reason as why their skin hardens. The horns they grow are not however part of this process: they naturally have grown from the skull as a primordial defense machanism agains the ancient beasts of

- Living on a planet with islands spread about in oceans of poisonous liquid, they have evolved to sport wings. These wings end up being vertically bigger than an actual Dursheq if he/she is in a crouched position.If a Dursheq wanted to sit on a chair, they would have to wrap their wings around their body.The wings themselves are supported by a thick skeleton that has bones protruding at the base of the wings. Also another single bone protrudes from the top of each wing.

-Since all of the liquids consumed have a higher radiation level than most other planets, their excretion often is radioactive so it is not advisable to mate with other species of a lower radiation tolerance. This could be negated if a Dursheq were to consume pure liquids for at least a month to clense her/his body of the radioactive chemicals.