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These aquatic, plant-like animals related to sea stars and sea urchins are formally called crinoids.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
Purple sea urchin populations have exploded in Oregon in recent years after a die-off of another of the shellfishes' top predators — sunflower sea stars.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
However, predators like sea stars and snails have evolved olfactory receptors specifically tuned to detect these compounds, turning the barnacles’ defensive mechanism into a homing beacon.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
The rarest sighting of the day, however, was a giant starfish known as a sunflower sea star — its 20 or so arms can span three feet.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
Purple sea urchin populations have exploded in Oregon in recent years after a die-off of another of the shellfishes' top predators — sunflower sea stars.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
However, predators like sea stars and snails have evolved olfactory receptors specifically tuned to detect these compounds, turning the barnacles’ defensive mechanism into a homing beacon.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
The rarest sighting of the day, however, was a giant starfish known as a sunflower sea star — its 20 or so arms can span three feet.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Sea star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20star. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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