California Academy of Sciences secures grant to help endangered Sunflower sea stars, Bay Area's coastal ecosystem
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Deep-sea dining. 🍽️ California sun stars have a voracious appetite and they are not picky about their next meal. They maneuver across mud or rocks on an army of tiny tube feet, drawn to the scent of a rotting feast. But these sea stars don’t solely dine on scavenged scraps—they are also cunning predators. Sun stars feast on crabs, amphipods, worms, and other small invertebrate animals by trapping them in their arms and swallowing them whole. The upper surface of the star is covered in tiny spin
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DID YOU KNOW? At more than 3 feet wide, the sunflower sea star is the ocean's LARGEST sea star. ⭐🌊 | Oceana
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Feather stars are part of phylum Echinodermata (along with sea urchins, sea stars, brittle stars and sea cucumbers) and the class Crinoidea (which only includes feather stars & sea lilies). These animals have a long history, first appearing in the fossil record about 300 million years before the dinosaurs during the Cambrian period! They use their feathery fringed arms to capture plankton and other little bits of food that drift by them. Like sea stars, feather stars can regrow their limbs if lo
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Growing to the size of a car tire, a large serving platter, a bistro table, or an exercise ball, sunflower sea stars are Critically Endangered keystone species in California—and you can now visit them in Steinhart Aquarium! Come see these multi-armed cuties today. 🌟🤗 | California Academy of Sciences
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