It's a known bug. Basically the game thinks you've gotten stuck and is trying to unstuck you by teleporting you above ground. 😬
Just pick a different planet/moon and find animals there.
It's an exploration game not a checklist. Have fun while trying to figure things out even though they may not be straight forward or easy
Alright, that makes two moons where I've tried and failed to find all the animals. I've got some nanites so I guess I'll just go to the anomaly and get what I can afford.
I believe there are 5 Moons right? This game requires some patient. You dont just rush through it and if you try, you won't have a good time
Honestly, I've never really liked the expeditions to begin with. I'm only doing it because something's broken on my main save preventing me from getting a bioship and the end reward from this one is a bioship.
The whole 'start again without any of the stuff you've spent days/weeks/months/years procuring' has never been appealing to me on it's own but Hello Games tends to be good at coming up with extrinsic rewards for putting up with it.
FYI, you don't need proximity to scan creatures and you don't even need line of sight for the entire length of the scan. If you can't dive down your hole, you can probably hang out at the surface and just scan the creatures from there if you can see them through it.
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