Nikta Fakhri at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her colleagues placed hundreds of starfish embryos, each around 0.1 millimetres in size, in small, salt-water tanks. The embryos then ...

I took the author’s prerogative to ask him Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week: “What are some of your favorite starfish ... suck up microalgae or small animals.

These tiny legs move in one motion, almost looking like small dots below the animal. "A close look at how starfish walk," the ... it's so weird looking," said another. "The design is very bizarre ...

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