Starfish have no.......................arms???
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/starfish-arms-head
Where exactly is the head of a starfish? Zoologists, after being stumped for centuries, may finally have an answer.
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, starfish don't just have a head. They are a head, and their so-called "arms?" They're just heads too, because as it turns out, a starfish barely has a body at all.
"It's as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk, and is best described as just a head crawling along the seafloor," said lead author Laurent Formery, a biologist at the University of Stanford,
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Invertebrates are so ... alien that I can't wrap my head around their physiology.
Are an octopus's "legs" really legs?
They can use them to "walk".
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Yes, but it makes them so very adaptable. Perhaps one day Octopi will be the dominant species. They're pretty clever,
@Mik said in Starfish have no.......................arms???:
Yes, but it makes them so very adaptable. Perhaps one day Octopi will be the dominant species. They're pretty clever,
Ahem, "Octopuses."
“I knew little about octopuses—not even that the scientifically correct plural is not octopi, as I had always believed (it turns out you can’t put a Latin ending—i—on a word derived from Greek, such as octopus).”
Excerpt From
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery
