Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-1458758-20141111152415

AnimeEx wrote: I don't know if Skurd is the same, it probably depends on how he eats. In all likelihood, since Skurd is a sapient parasite, he's probably classed as such on the loose basis that he has to live off of other creatures, as being Sapient, his species could have put more effort into finding a synthetic means of survival instead of riding on Thunderpig or whoever it was.

There is the possibility that "Living off DNA" is just a generalisation used by Khyber so as to illustrate his own ends for Skurd, and that Slimebiotes more literally feed on the Nuclei within cells, so he could be feeding off of things like Ben's shed skin cells and his ability to adapt features based on DNA is a more unique defensive measure that Slimebiotes can use, thus making something like the Omnitrix more of a fancy wine tasting for Skurd, as opposed to a real meal.