Starfish eat a wide variety of plant and animal life ... The tube feet are filled with seawater, which the sea star brings in through the madreporite (a sort of trap door) on its top side.
The sea star—often called a starfish, though it's no more a fish ... When it's finished eating, it pulls its stomach back inside itself and goes on its way." Tide pools form in zones of rocky ...
"Crown-of-thorns starfish, they're actually natural to the Barrier Reef and all through the Indo-Pacific, but what they do (is), they eat coral ... the most intense sea temperature rises brought ...
While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...
96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...