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The is Hymenaster, a deep-sea slime star.

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These produce mucus as a defense mechanism.

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And if you collected this, it would fill the box with slime.

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But, they’re beautiful animals, and I love seeing them.

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It’s only too bad that there’s not some non-intrusive way to sort of get them to show off their mucus-spewing abilities.