How a Seafloor Blob Became Mexico’s ‘Black Gold’
RÍO LAGARTOS, Mexico — It is not a glamorous creature. The sea cucumber, a relative of the starfish and sea urchin, isn’t much more than a blob creeping across the ocean floor on tentacle-feet, munching on algae and plankton. The most interesting thing about the animal may be that some species defend themselves by ejecting…
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