An idea I got the other day was that some monsters could reproduce by sexual cannibalism. Not simply eat their partner during or after sex, but eat their partner in order to inseminate their eggs.
According to the quasi-canon Dune Encyclopedia, the male sand-worm consumes the female, inseminates her eggs inside his body, then lays the egg case himself. The female does not survive the process, but she does not need to.
According to a suggestion by Derek Holland, the thessalmonster could reproduce by "hemiclone." Every thessalmonster is an asexual female who fertilizes her eggs by eating another monster. The offspring will be a hybrid of thessalhydra and whatever the "father" was, leading to the many varieties like thessalgorgon, thessalisk, thessalmera, thessalnaga, thessaltrice, etc. Every thessalmonster only passes on the traits of the thessalhydra to her offspring, so the traits of past "fathers" are not inherited by subsequent generations.
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