Friday, 5 October 2012

Sunflower Seastar Has Weird Way Of Eating

The sunflower seastar (Pycnopodia helianthoides) is a large sea star found in the northeast Pacific. It is the largest sea star in the world, with a maximum armspan of 3.3 ft. A sunflower seastar can have up to 26 arms and 15,000 tube feet, which it can use to pry open a clam. The sunflower seastar then pushes its stomach out of its mouth and into the clam, digesting the hapless bivalve in its own shell.



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(thanks Cora)

1 comment(s):

Betsy said...

wellllll, for a seastar this is common.... most of them eat like this.