A fascinating and dangerous animal: Sea Urchin

Resultado de imagen para erizo florToday I'll be writing about sea urchins. I would love to talk about a specific type which is called "Toxic flower sea urchin". I found out about this animal when my eight year old brother wanted to watch a Netflix show with me. He loves animals and he found a show called "72 dangerous animals" which shows different animals that are agressive or letal in two continents: Asia and Latin America (as far as I know) -The show also has another version called "72 cutest animals"-. In the first chapter I found out about this kind of sea urchins, knows as a really dangerous animal in Asia. It has tiny tongs (called pedicellariae), almost microscopic, which stick to the skin immediately when someone touches them, and release a poison which is letal for humans, or at least cause an unbearable pain and paralysis . They also have predators, so when they are in danger, those tiny tongs are able to take rocks that are near to the sea urchin and use them to cover up, so they can not be seen by predators. What I like the most about this animals is that those pedicellariae look like tiny flowers, and it's actually very beautiful, but they are incredible dangerous and has killed many people in Japan.


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  1. Flo Jiménez24 de septiembre de 2019 a las 13:24

    Woow April, I think it's a really interesting animal. It's amazing that something that looks so innocent like a flower turns out to be this dangerous

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  2. Felipe13 de diciembre de 2019 a las 17:04

    This animal is awesome! I did not know it. Beautifil and dangerous animal.

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