Lilywalker

Lilywalkers (Jacanatheriidae) are a family of large-footed bipedal carnivorous mammals descended from a group of prehistoric elephant shrews of Eocene Africa. They are named for their ability to walk on floating water plants such as lilies without sinking, in a manner similar to jacana birds, which fill the similar ecological niches, yet despite some competition from jacanas, lilywalkers flourish due to abundance of prey items and feeding on some smaller animals that jacanas don't feed on. Just like the ancestors of terrible-jawed beasts, lilywalker's ancestors had evolved theropod-like bipedal locomotions due to some extreme climate changes in parts of Africa in the Eocene, forcing some primitive elephant shrews to evolve full bipedalism, with terrible-jawed beasts and lilywalkers having diverged just around 5 million years after these elephant shrews became fully-bipedal. The conservation status of all species of lilywalkers is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts as well as their ability to tolerate large amounts of human activities, including tolerating oil and chemical leaks, as well as ability to adapt to life in the cities and suburbs.