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[[Image:Tyranid Biovoreart.jpg|thumb|right|Tyranid A Biovore with Spore Mines]]'''Biovores''' are sluggish , bloated [[Tyranid]] creatures whose only task is to grow and launch [[Spore Mine]]s towards the enemy. ³ They are the equivalent of an artillery tank of other species, and can fire three types of spores: fragmentation, bio-acid and poison. The Spore Mines grow inside the Biovore's body, and are then hurled across the battlefield through a powerful muscle spasm in its dorsal aperture. The Spores do not detonate upon impact, but when they sense the proximity of a non-Tyranid lifeform.

Spore Mines grow deep inside a Biovore's body, and are then launched via a powerful muscle spasm through the Biovore's dorsal aperture and hurled across the battlefield. An internal gas bladder in the Spore Mines inflates allowing them to drift down towards the ground, where they do not detonate upon impact but when they sense the proximity of a non-Tyranid lifeform.³ A Biovore and can fire three types of Spore Mines: fragmentation, bio-acid or poison. Biovores are relatively rare amongst the Tyranid horde. They were created , as the [[Hive Mind's answer to long range weaponry; because ]] prefers combat that involves a bloody melee. However, as the Tyranids Tyranid invasion pressed deeper into the galaxy[[Galaxy]], their enemies began Biovores were created by the Hive Mind as a means to focus on destroying neutralise the swarm from a great distancelong range weaponry used by its enemies.²³ Biovores supposedly contain genes assimilated from [[Ork]]s.¹

|style=background:#4F4F4F colspan=4 align=center|'''Ordo Xenos Departmento Analyticus Record'''²

*³: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]] ==See also==*[[Species of Tyranid]], p.48