People really underestimate these guys. They may be the best black pearl harvesters in the game. They collect tons of them from the giant shells and get a crazy weight reduction on them. Not that they even really need it, since their weight stat is astronomical. When you're riding these guys you can close their shell to make your player invincible. They also provide infinite oxygen under the water and insulate you against heat and cold. From what I can tell they don't dismount you when shocked. When free swimming their tail attack has solid DPS and they take reduced damage to most of their body. On land their tail attack does impressive knockback. They also have a really solid health pool that pairs well with their natural armor. With one of these guys you can basically live inside the ocean for as long as you want. The only real downside is their speed, but if you breed a couple of high level individuals and max out your imprint you may be able to get a 200% speed baby like I did. Helps a lot.

These things are AMAZING black pearl harvesters!

You can ride these without saddles. They are also good swimmers.

Might be a replacement for paracer boxing. And is a mix between stego and racer. Will have to wait and see how it fits in the meta

The Grand Tortugar can swim quite quickly and also you can build a base on it’s back like the bronto or quetzal it can walk on the ocean floor too

The Ark creature known as Grand Tortuga is known to have 90 percent weight reduction on black pearls

If you leave its shell open and get your friends to get inside you create yourself a gunship

The bug in my backyard that won’t move

Great for farming Black pearls, from what it seems in Raasclark’s video.