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I will add a more in-depth page on burners anatomy when I'm not so tired.

This is a basic life cycle of 'burners', a type of inflatogastrate that uses the storage bladder of waste gas to provide combustible fuel as well as to aid in buoyancy.
The two siphons present in regular balloon worms have linked up to the gas bladder and act like a pulse-jet engine, making them fast but noisy predators.

They could be compared to the sharks of Fentil's northern continents, although they have a high energy intake and do not live anywhere near as long as many other slower inflatogastrates.

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I've had the idea for something using waste gas as a rocket fuel for ages (although the idea initially came about a year ago from imagining a cow with a biological spark plug in its rectum, so it could propel itself away from predators explosively. It was only after i started really looking into other xenobiology works that I realise that this has been done countless times before.
Ah well, convergent evolution )

Description
I will add a more in-depth page on burners anatomy when I'm not so tired.

This is a basic life cycle of 'burners', a type of inflatogastrate that uses the storage bladder of waste gas to provide combustible fuel as well as to aid in buoyancy.
The two siphons present in regular balloon worms have linked up to the gas bladder and act like a pulse-jet engine, making them fast but noisy predators.

They could be compared to the sharks of Fentil's northern continents, although they have a high energy intake and do not live anywhere near as long as many other slower inflatogastrates.

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I've had the idea for something using waste gas as a rocket fuel for ages (although the idea initially came about a year ago from imagining a cow with a biological spark plug in its rectum, so it could propel itself away from predators explosively. It was only after i started really looking into other xenobiology works that I realise that this has been done countless times before.
Ah well, convergent evolution )