Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — The Sea Cucumber. [ARTICLE]

The Sea Cucumber.

The sea cucumber, one of the c-rious jelly bodies that inhabit the ocean, can practically efface himself when in danger by squeezing the water out of his body, and forcing himself into a narrow crack—so narrow as not to be visible to the naked eye. He can throw out nearly the whole of his inside, and yet live and grow it again.