Frag'd It » starfish http://blog.fragd.it Reefs, coral, fish and aquariums. Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:24:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Reefy News: Eight Legged Starfish? http://blog.fragd.it/2009/10/23/reefy-news-eight-legged-starfish/ http://blog.fragd.it/2009/10/23/reefy-news-eight-legged-starfish/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:40 +0000 vlad http://blog.fragd.it/?p=2350 The Daily Mail, from the UK, came out with this article about an eight legged starfish. The crazy little thing was discovered inside a Cornish fisherman’s crab pot, the article said. The Blue Reef Aquarium curator, Matt Slater, talked about this species of starfish in detail:

‘Starfish have the ability to re-grow lost limbs and the general consensus is that starfish with extra legs are caused by some kind of accidental genetic mutation.

However with this particular starfish it has three extra legs and it also has two special openings – known as madreporites – through which water is pumped into their fluid filled skeleton. ‘

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The thing looks like it can eat your cat! Meeeeow!!! You can read the rest of the article here. Enjoy your weekends people!

]]> http://blog.fragd.it/2009/10/23/reefy-news-eight-legged-starfish/feed/ 1 new type of sea star http://blog.fragd.it/2008/05/19/new-type-of-sea-star/ http://blog.fragd.it/2008/05/19/new-type-of-sea-star/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 22:51:52 +0000 jeff http://blog.fragd.it/?p=44 I new type of brittle stars have been found off the coast of New Zealand. Another example about how little we know about the oceans.

The international team found millions of the starfish-like animals on top of a seamount that’s higher than the world’s tallest building in waters south of New Zealand – an area that until now had never been seen by human eyes.




 

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