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Water: Echinoderms

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Echinoderms are spiny predators that use many small tube feet to move and catch prey. Starfish can pry open shellfish with their tube feet. Brittle stars escape predators by shedding appendages. Sea cucumbers and sea urchins are also echinoderms.
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