Because the hydrostatic skeletons have limited ability for attachment of limbs, the organisms are relatively simple and do not have many abilities to grab or latch onto things.
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University of Massachusetts researcher Diane Kelly documents a non-helical hydrostatic skeleton structure as the functional basis of the mammalian penis which must function similarly to a rigid element in use.
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They have limited control over movement, but can use their hydrostatic skeleton to navigate through contraction-pulsations of the bell-like body; some species actively swim most of the time, while others are mostly passive.
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When raised to the surface these animals burst, as they have a hydrostatic skeleton that normally experiences an average pressure of above . " Praya dubia " has been known since the nineteenth century, but its length was discovered only after the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute undertook a systematic study of the water column in 1987.