5 Fun Facts About Sea Squirt

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5 Fun Facts About Sea Sea Squirts are sessile animals. They are primarily found in potato shape, or tubular shape spotted resting on the hard surface like rocks and shells

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Sea Squirts live in shallow depths of the sea, where salinity is more than 2.5%.

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They can also survive on soft mud, sandy bottoms, or gravel grains.

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A group of Sea Squirts is called zooid; these zooid bodies nestle together as one unit.

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Sea Squirts live alone or in colonies. These colonies look similar to many grapes or rubbery blobs on the seafloor.

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Sea Squirts' life span is 7-30 years in the wild, depending on the species and environmental conditions.

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Sea Squirts are hermaphrodites; hence, they possess male and female reproductive organs near the gut or body wall.

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Discovering Tunicates far beneath the ocean can be cute and incredibly adorable to watch in their juvenile form.

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They are found in many colors, from fleshy beiges to brown, yellow, red, blue, green, orange, pink, and white.

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