What is it??

[gemfyre]

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[mistystargazer.livejournal.com]

This post is awesome. My first guess was a sea anemone, but since it looks dry and not wet, I'm going to guess an echidna?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for someone to say Sea anemone!

(yes, it's an echidna).

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

if you dropped it in a bucket first would it have looked more like an echidna? (Echidna was the first scientific name they gave these guys - then they discovered that somebody had called a fish echidna first, so they had to change it. Platypus, similarly, was preempted by a genus of beetles)