>>6132515Inevtiably many of these creatures are either hunted or shaken off, either way they end upon the ocean floor. Some of them continue to survive, even if vestigially, reverting to their earliest methods of nutrient absorption, the sand. The most successful eventually have longer and stronger 'tongues' which were once used on live bodies, now used to soak up more from the sand and to root themselves deep, as to make it harder for predators to tear them out from the earth.
