They have an endoskeleton under their skin, but in many species it's become downright vestigial, consisting of little more than a few tiny withered bits and pieces. They're like gloopy blobs that are somehow alive.
EDIT - I originally wrote that they have an exoskeleton under their skin, which is completely against all laws of linguistics. Are the sea cucumbers that weird? No, but they're just weird enough to confuse my words.
EDIT - I originally wrote that they have an exoskeleton under their skin, which is completely against all laws of linguistics. Are the sea cucumbers that weird? No, but they're just weird enough to confuse my words.
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Animals Are Awesome, Ep. 13 - The Sea Cucumber
- 26/08/2011 04:10:27 PM
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Those things are so... weird *NM*
- 26/08/2011 04:24:53 PM
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They're practically bizarre.
- 26/08/2011 05:11:59 PM
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How can they have an "exo"skeleton under their skin? Isn't that conflicting terminology?
- 26/08/2011 06:43:54 PM
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They made it crap its poo-lungs. 
- 26/08/2011 08:27:10 PM
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- 26/08/2011 08:27:10 PM
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