Invertebrates & Coral – Echinoderms
Sea Cucumber
A squishy sea-floor cleaner with a secret superpower!
How big is it?
SuperpowerWhen something scares it, it can shoot sticky threads out of its body to tangle up the attacker. Then it grows new ones!
EatsTiny crumbs of food that drift down to the sea floor. It scoops them up with little feelers around its mouth.
LivesOn the sea floor all over the world, from shallow reefs all the way down to the deepest, darkest ocean.
FamilyIt is a cousin of the starfish and the sea urchin. Instead of arms it has rows of tiny tube feet to crawl along.
Ooh, a tricky one! You've got this!A sea cucumber is a vegetable.
It is an animal! It just looks a bit like a cucumber lying on the sea floor.
