Creature:Vulcanawks

biology
the vulcanawks can only live in volcanic habitats because their blood has incredibly high freezing and boiling temperatures. They do have an adaptation to this, where their veins expand and new pathways open up, to keep the blood flowing. This adaptation comes at a price though, the expanded veins need more space, and their body literally inflates in an incredibly painful way, leaving them looking like this:

as a side effect of being stuck in the volcano, they have become extremely defensive and paranoid, as they feel they have to be careful that nobody steals the only place they could ever call home.

anther picture, of some vulcanawks swimming thrugh lava