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Most starfish have five arms but none have a brain.", "Starfish Table Manners (part I):

Turn a starfish over and you will see hundreds of tiny suction cups.

The starfish uses them to break apart clams and oysters to eat.", "A Real Starfish Trooper:

If one of a starfish's arms is accidentally cut off, another will grow in its place. As long as 20 percent of the central disk and at least one arm remains, a starfish can completely recover.", "Split Personality:

Did you know that some starfish can split their bodies in two and grow two new whole starfish? It’s true! Once split, they will grow new ‘legs’ and tada! Two new starfish! If a starfish is chopped up, some of the parts will also become new starfish.", "Faux Fish:

Starfish are also called ‘Sea Stars’ because they are not really fish.", "Starfish of Many Colors:

Starfish can be very colorful! They can be vibrantly dressed in Reds, Yellows, Pinks, Violets, and Purples.", "Five Eyes...

Starfish have a small pigment eye spot that is sensitive to light.", "Starfish Table Manners (part II):

When a starfish wants to get the meat out of a shell, all it has to do is pry it open just enough to spit its stomach out through its mouth and into the mollusk.

The digestive juices turn the mollusk's body into liquid, which is guided back into the starfish mouth by its ciliated arms.", "Starfish Romance:

Sea stars are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction. In other words, they can produce offspring alone or with a sea star of the opposite sex.

Sea stars do not touch when they mate. Instead, the male releases sperm into the water and the female releases her eggs.

When a sperm and egg meet, they become a single fertilized embryo, which will travel through the ocean as zooplankton (animals that float on ocean currents).", "Oops...

Some species of sea star reproduce asexually. When one part of the arm is detached from the body, it will eventually develop into another sea star.

Years ago, when fishermen attempted to kill sea stars (which fed on the clams they wished to harvest), they sometimes made the mistake of chopping them up and tossing them into the water.

Ultimately, this led to an enormous amount of sea star reproduction and greatly increased the number of sea stars in the ocean.", "It's in the Stars:

Most starfish are carnivorous. The typical diet of the starfish consists of mussels, oysters, clams, and other bivalves.

Bivalves are usually too slow to move away from the starfish, so they are easy prey.

Other starfish are detrivorous, which means that they feed on decomposed matter made by animals and plants. Some starfish prefer to eat sponges, plankton, and coral polyps.", "Blood is Thicker Than Water... Sometimes:

Starfish have sea water, rather than blood, pumping through their bodies.", "The Starfish Sense:

The eyespots at the end of each starfish's arm are incredibly sensitive to light.

Starfish also have pedicellariae, spines, and tube feet, which are sensitive to touch. Most echinoderms do not have well developed senses.", "What We Do Effects the Stars:

Starfish are very sensitive creatures and may become sick if changes occur in their environments, such as increases in water temperatures or pollution levels.", "Wearing its Heart on its Sleeve:

This is because a starfish's vital organs are kept in its rays (arms) rather than the center of their bodies, some species can regenerate an entire body from one severed limb.", "Starfish Table Manners (part III):

Starfish have two stomachs that are used to digest food. The starfish can project its cardiac stomach outside of its body to trap food, while its pyloric stomach remains safely inside its body.", "Dead or Alive:

There are approximately 1,800 species of starfish. Starfish are echinoderms, as are sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers.

The echinoderms (Echinodermata is Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine animals that first appeared in the early Cambrian Period.

There are 7,000 species of echinoderms alive today, but scientists know of 13,000 species of echinoderms that have become extinct.", "Starfish Abound!

Starfish are found in every ocean in the world, but they cannot survive in freshwater or on land for very long.", "Perfect Symmetry:

Starfish have radial symmetry, also known as line symmetry, which means that their bodies are made up of identical repeated parts."];