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Sea cucumbers

There's a sea animal that looks like a vegetable, gets its food by \"licking its fingers," and shoots out part of its insides if it is attacked! Because this animal looks like the vegetable called a...

Lilies of the sea

The sea lily is an animal that looks like a flower and is made almost entirely of chalk! This sounds impossible, but it's true. A sea lily looks like a flower with lacy, feathery petals on the end...

Sand dollars

> sea urchin on a sponge > A sand dollar isn't something you can spend. It's a small animal that > looks somewhat like a silver dollar or a cookie. Sand dollars are also > called sea biscuits or...

Pincushions of the sea

> sea urchins Imagine an animal that looks like a creeping pincushion! That's what many of the creatures called sea urchins look like. Let's visit a coral reef near Australia. At low tide you can...

Stars in the sea

A tiny, colorless ball floats near the surface of the sea. It is one of several million eggs laid in the water by a common starfish. Within three or four days, a soft-bodied creature hatches from...

Echinoderms

An animal shaped like a star. An animal that looks like a pincushion. An animal that resembles a cookie. An animal that looks like a flower. And an animal that looks like a vegetable. All these...