The Strange Creatures of Wing Commander Academy

Eggs are in the news right now and we thought we'd investigate one thing that's driving up the prices. That's right, it's the Dioscurian Ovizard! These adorable twelve-legged lizards show up in "Lords of the Sky" when the cadets first enter the atmosphere of Dioscuri-2. The ovizard eats the egg and is then startled by the Scimitars' thrusters, prompting it to change color and dart away. That's a lot of biology in a few frames!

Here's their home, from the mission briefing earlier in the episode. Note the Easter eggs in this screenshot, references to Forbidden Planet, Alien and Star Trek!

Their name was introduced in Star*Soldier in a classified ad intended to be from a scientist studying on Dioscuri-2:

Free to Good Home: litter of Dioscurian Ovizards. Stealthy, eggchomping space weirdos are all the rage in Sol!
Contact creid@dioscuri.science

One question remains: what made the nest and the egg in the first place? We don't see any other notable animals on Dioscuri-2... but there are some weird skulls decorating the Dioscurian temple!

We do see some extraterrestrial birds (and butterflies!) on Greenhouse later in the show: