Fisherman Catches Largest Rare Creature Off Russia

The Orange Sea Cucumber

Sea cucumbers, despite the name and their love of inertion, are animals, not vegetables, and most of us wouldn’t eat them (except in China where they are considered to be a very expensive delicacy).While most of us know them as the little black things hanging out among shallow rocks near the beach, the deep sea versions, as is proven by Roman’s finds, are super-sized. Compared to its deep sea kin, this one is a baby. The largest ones can grow up to 10 feet long.

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Kimberly Atwood’s books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Kimberly lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical research, Kimberly got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Ohio State University. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of London and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships with some really important people who are way too dignified to be named here. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

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