Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

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These guys are the kings of trilobite hunting. Not only do they deal additional damage to them, they're great at collecting chitin, oil, and pearls. Other perks: they don't need a saddle to be ridden while in the water, they provide you with oxygen underwater, and are faster than just about anything while swimming. Super underrated mounts imo.
If they are SWIMMING you can ride them. Use this to get black pearls from trilobites and lobsters but watch out because everything that aggro on humans will aggro on it so watch out Also if riding on mobile you have infinite air. This dude is how I obtained enough black pearls to tame that tuso that got stuck in rocks