Xialo

The Xialo are a very strange race from the planet Zeahlon.

Biology
The Xialo possess large black eyes and thin tadpole-like bodies.

They have no bones in their bodies but cartilage giving them a somewhat boneless, cartoon-ish look.

They never reach more than three foot in height.

Xialo are considered somewhat backwards in evolutionary terms, merely because unlike a vast majority of species they started out on land then evolved to live in water rather than the other way around.

The Xialo are incapable of breathing out of their native waters and are physically weak and defenceless.

In response to this, they have evolved telepathy and great intelligence.

Their communication methods also cause confusion, especially to first-time encounters. The Xialo communicate by psychically giving the impression they just spoke, without actually doing so. So essentially you know what they said but didn't 'hear' it.

Technology
The Xialo are incapable of surviving out of water, so their technology seems to surround that fact.

Their crafts appear as giant spheres of water and each individual travels about within a small hovering sphere of water that will simply pop off from the main craft.