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Do sea cucumbers excrete sand

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Yes. When they eat they end up swallowing sand with whatever food they were trying to eat. The sand then goes through their digestive tracts and becomes very clean. And then they excrete it .

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