Seattleaquarium.org Website Review

The health of Puget Sound and our one world ocean is at stake, and the mission of the Seattle Aquarium has never been more important. We all have an awesome responsibility to protect and restore our marine environment—and it all starts with understanding. Help the Aquarium educate our community about the challenges facing Puget Sound. What’s soft, squishy, able to spill its guts and found in most Seattle Aquarium habitats? The sea cucu*ber! These invertebrates (an*mals without backbones) can confuse or harm predators by expelling their internal organs—literally spilling their guts—along with a toxic substance, in the direction of an attack. The missing organs regenerate in one to five weeks.. URCHINS, ANEMONES AND SEA STARS, OH MY! INVERTEBRATE CARE AT THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM. Invertebrates—an*mals without backbones—are found in every habitat at the Seattle Aquarium. And, like all an*mals that make their homes Aggregating anemones are the most abundant species of anemone along the North American coast. Found attached to rocks, they prey on small fish, snails, crabs and other an*mals that they immobilize with venom from their tentacles, then devour through their mouths, located at the The water in Puget Sound goes up and down. During extreme low tides in the summer, Beach Naturalists are at area beaches to share what they