See-through Cucumber - Creature of the Deep

An odd transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, was seen creeping forward on its many tentacles at about 3/4 inch (2 cm) per minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth. At the end, it bloomed into a startling curved shape and swam away to find another meal, which scientists recorded on video at roughly 1.7 miles deep (2,750 meters) on a 2007 voyage in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

At 1.7 miles down (2,750 meters) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, scientists found this transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, creeping forward on its many tentacles at less than 1 inch (2 cm) per minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth. The creature was discovered as part of the decade-long, international 14-project Census of Marine Life. Credit: Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Starfish Graveyard

More than 10,000 starfish have died after being washed on to a beach along the Norfolk coast during a storm.

The creatures are thought to have gathered in the shallows to feed on mussels, before being swept ashore during high tide.

Nigel Croasdale, from Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary, told The Times the starfish would have only survived for a few hours without water.

"This type of thing may happen once a year, depending on the weather," he said.

"When the tide returns, the bodies are usually washed back into the sea."

A local resident described the scene on the beach as "a starfish graveyard".

Starfish – not as cute as you think

Lets us uncover the secret life of a starfish. First of al they are not fish but echinoderms, making their nearest relatives the scary-looking sea urchin and the dreary sea cucumber. Ok this that ‘dreary’ bit is just my personal opinion, my best friend is actually thinks they are cool…. Go figure ;) They should be called seastar then and not starfish because they are not related to any fish.

So a seastar can beat X-men member Wolverine in one thing. And that is its ability to grow back their own arms and can even regenerate their entire body from just one limb and a small portion of their central disc.

As well as arms, seastar have feet, eyes and mouths. A red spot at the end of each of arm allows them to sense light and dark, while hundreds of "tube feet" on their underside help them both to scuttle along the seabed and to grip their prey as they eat (their favorites are mussels, clams and snails).

And how amazingly this carnivorous creatures eat, ejecting their stomachs through their mouths, which are also located on their underside, and using enzymes to digest their food before sliding their stomachs back inside. It's not pretty: in an episode of BBC1's latest nature series Life, David Attenborough bid us watch as hundreds of starfish devoured a dead seal pup en masse.

Watch this amazing video and let me know what YOU think.

Starfish Feeding by BBC showing seastars and marine worms feeding on dead seal flesh.

Starfish cute? Well, their table manner might be horrid but their vibrant colors definately add to their charm.