This is my spirit animal.

Yes I do.
It was an apex predator that was feared across the seas. It had an advanced social system and dominance hierarchy where prowess in individual combat conferred status. Many attained elevated states of consciousness, I have encountered many of these creatures in my astral projections and they have readily answered my inquiries. They are aware that paleontologists are, as we speak, conspiring to start defaming them as they have done to the tyrannosaurs. This has already begun with scientists casting doubt on their ability to penetrate trilobite carapaces (they could, according to my contacts who I asked this very question). But they have grown beyond such petty concerns. Small populations continue to exist near the core of Europa, channeling its vril energy. Most left the solar system during the mid-late Cretaceous, long after their kind kind on Earth went extinct. They soar across stelar winds now fueling themselves on pure aether.

Plant, not an animal.