Starfish
noun
A sea creature with five arms shaped like a star.
I saw a beautiful starfish while snorkeling in the ocean.
Often appears as...
- starfish in the ocean
- beautiful starfish
noun
A sea creature with five arms shaped like a star.
I saw a beautiful starfish while snorkeling in the ocean.
Often appears as...
- starfish in the ocean
- beautiful starfish
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Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Understanding
Starfish live in the ocean, not in freshwater lakes or rivers.
The aquarium's saltwater tanks are perfect for starfish.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Diversity
Some starfish have more than five arms, up to fifty!
This species of starfish has nine arms.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Actual Fish
Despite their name, starfish are echinoderms, not fish. They don't have gills, scales, or fins.
Starfish don't swim like fish; they crawl with tiny tube feet.
Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Understanding
Starfish live in the ocean, not in freshwater lakes or rivers.
The aquarium's saltwater tanks are perfect for starfish.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Diversity
Some starfish have more than five arms, up to fifty!
This species of starfish has nine arms.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Actual Fish
Despite their name, starfish are echinoderms, not fish. They don't have gills, scales, or fins.
Starfish don't swim like fish; they crawl with tiny tube feet.
Pro Tip 1/3Habitat Understanding
Starfish live in the ocean, not in freshwater lakes or rivers.
The aquarium's saltwater tanks are perfect for starfish.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Diversity
Some starfish have more than five arms, up to fifty!
This species of starfish has nine arms.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Actual Fish
Despite their name, starfish are echinoderms, not fish. They don't have gills, scales, or fins.
Starfish don't swim like fish; they crawl with tiny tube feet.
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The science of symmetry...
or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox. But, what does this all have to do with evolution? Turns out, biologists can use these various body symmetries to figure out which animals are related to which. For instance, we saw that starfish and sea urchins have five-fold symmetry. But really what we should have said was
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Why Are So Many Starfish...
of the largest mortality events associated with the disease that we've ever observed in the ocean in this region here in the sailors see there's almost 30 different species of sea stars you can call it sea star or starfish for the same thing so we've been looking at the effects of sea star wasting disease
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How will we survive when...
exceeds the bounds of natural selection. Natural selection ordinarily keeps populations and species within roughly defined limits. Pests, parasites, lack of resources prevent them from expanding too much. But every now and then, a species escapes its bounds. Crown-of-thorns starfish in the Indian Ocean,
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Where do new words come...
with English lending words like software to languages all over the world. Another popular way to fill a vocabulary gap is by combining existing words that each convey part of the new concept. This can be done by combining two whole words into a compound word, like airport or starfish,
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Photographing Our Seas:...
They are the largest shallow water starfish in the world. You know, three-four kilos, incredible predators. But for me, the one species that screamed out pulsating life were jellyfish. And in the right months of the year, in the fjords they aggregate in incredible numbers to spawn.
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"Dumbo," Other Deep-Sea...
the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to sweep the oceans to trite us into its mouth at the end of its meal it changes shape and flies off to find another nutritious mud bath by the time the census of marine life wraps up its mission next fall the five deep-sea
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Filming Antarctica's...
and you could just see the ice crystals forming and then on this wide shot looking at the floor you could see the the different vertebrates the starfish getting caught up in this drama and this you know kind of really quite terrifying field of ice
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Closing America's Oldest...
alligator reformists able to pick them up and then they were released back in the wild cave is clear except for a starfish you know one of the things that I think is really important is for people to continue to support aquariums
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Cesar Millan's Tips For...
have a tough situation with your dog I got all the tips to help and I wrote a book just for you meet Rosie a four-year-old starfish a terrier with a stubborn streak how can she become a happy dog so we're
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Titan Triggerfish...
that can easily be knocked out of balance pollution and a loss of natural predators can cause starfish and urchin numbers to explode
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The science of symmetry...
or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox. But, what does this all have to do with evolution? Turns out, biologists can use these various body symmetries to figure out which animals are related to which. For instance, we saw that starfish and sea urchins have five-fold symmetry. But really what we should have said was
Video examples
Why Are So Many Starfish...
of the largest mortality events associated with the disease that we've ever observed in the ocean in this region here in the sailors see there's almost 30 different species of sea stars you can call it sea star or starfish for the same thing so we've been looking at the effects of sea star wasting disease
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How will we survive when...
exceeds the bounds of natural selection. Natural selection ordinarily keeps populations and species within roughly defined limits. Pests, parasites, lack of resources prevent them from expanding too much. But every now and then, a species escapes its bounds. Crown-of-thorns starfish in the Indian Ocean,
Video examples
Where do new words come...
with English lending words like software to languages all over the world. Another popular way to fill a vocabulary gap is by combining existing words that each convey part of the new concept. This can be done by combining two whole words into a compound word, like airport or starfish,
Video examples
Photographing Our Seas:...
They are the largest shallow water starfish in the world. You know, three-four kilos, incredible predators. But for me, the one species that screamed out pulsating life were jellyfish. And in the right months of the year, in the fjords they aggregate in incredible numbers to spawn.
Video examples
"Dumbo," Other Deep-Sea...
the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to sweep the oceans to trite us into its mouth at the end of its meal it changes shape and flies off to find another nutritious mud bath by the time the census of marine life wraps up its mission next fall the five deep-sea
Video examples
Filming Antarctica's...
and you could just see the ice crystals forming and then on this wide shot looking at the floor you could see the the different vertebrates the starfish getting caught up in this drama and this you know kind of really quite terrifying field of ice
Video examples
Closing America's Oldest...
alligator reformists able to pick them up and then they were released back in the wild cave is clear except for a starfish you know one of the things that I think is really important is for people to continue to support aquariums
Video examples
Cesar Millan's Tips For...
have a tough situation with your dog I got all the tips to help and I wrote a book just for you meet Rosie a four-year-old starfish a terrier with a stubborn streak how can she become a happy dog so we're
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Titan Triggerfish...
that can easily be knocked out of balance pollution and a loss of natural predators can cause starfish and urchin numbers to explode
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Paul Walker
American Actor
I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
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Stephen Hillenburg
American Actor
I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that, hey, nobody is doing an underseas show. So I started drawing these weird invertebrate animals, various characters like crawfish and starfish and squids and sponge.
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Michele Bachmann
American Politician
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.
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Nick Sagan
American Novelist
It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.
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Paul Walker
American Actor
I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
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Stephen Hillenburg
American Actor
I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that, hey, nobody is doing an underseas show. So I started drawing these weird invertebrate animals, various characters like crawfish and starfish and squids and sponge.
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Michele Bachmann
American Politician
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.
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Nick Sagan
American Novelist
It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.
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