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Nitrozac Moderator 
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posted August 30, 2001 12:09
   
Don't you just love the Sea? Here is what appears to be a mutant starfish sunning itself in lowtide.
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Eponine Highlie 
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posted August 30, 2001 12:53
Gah! It's Snaggy!  Oh, wait, it's just a starfish. ^_^Very neat Nitrozac, I was just in Fla at the beach, and the sand dollars were just as cool to look at. I didn't see any starfish though. IP: Logged |
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Demosthenes Assimilated 
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posted August 30, 2001 12:54
wow, it looks like cthulhu's maw. 
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Roceal Super Geek  
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posted August 30, 2001 17:12
That's not a starfish, that's a sunflower star. Those can have as many as 20 arms, unlike the typically five-armed starfish. It is in the same phylum of Echinodermata, though.  -Andrea, who used to want to be a marine biology major and misses getting to scuba dive. IP: Logged |
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Nitrozac Moderator
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posted August 30, 2001 19:06
Thanks Andrea! I looked up more info for y'all; "Frequenting regions rich in seaweeds, the sunflower star can be found in the intertidal and subtidal zones from Alaska to San Diego (although uncommon south of Carmel Bay in Monterey County). With an arm radius of over 15 inches (40 cm.) or more, these soft flexible creatures bear up to 24 arms in adults, and 5 arms in juveniles. Usually pink, purplish, or brown, they can also be found in red, orange, or yellow. This impressive animal is the largest, heaviest, and most active of the Pacific coast sea stars; a large sunflower star can bring over 1500 sucker feet into action against a struggling fish or crab. Sea urchins and mussels are the sunflower star's favorite foods. They usually swallow their food whole and digest it internally, even though they can partially evert their stomachs. In Monterey Bay, this star feeds seasonally on dead or dying squid." Here is even more interesting info! IP: Logged |
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Eponine Highlie
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posted August 30, 2001 22:57
Wow, that's really cool! I figured some geek here would know what it really was.
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bull3t Super Geek
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posted September 17, 2001 10:32
That looks like something my cat coughed up a few weeks ago 
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Xanoxt R'rilander Super Geek
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posted September 17, 2001 11:03
Ah, you lucky people who live near the sea. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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sk00t Mini-Geek
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posted September 27, 2001 00:48
I am getting hungry.... 
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LifetimeTrekker Alpha Geek Posts: 326 |
posted September 30, 2001 18:01
It was very pretty, and very tasty! IP: Logged |
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Morbo the Destroyer unregistered |
posted September 30, 2001 19:42
It reminds me of your puny Galaxy, which I intend to destroy in the next three-hundred of your puny Earth-years. -Morbo P.S. You are all puny! PUUUUNYYYYY!!! IP: Logged |
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DivaGeek Super Geek
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posted September 30, 2001 20:15
What if it gets stuck to your foot? With all those suckers, I'll bet it doesn't come off easily... I guess you'll just have to find a matching one and stick it to the other foot. -------------------- IP: Logged |
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Xanthine Highlie
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posted September 30, 2001 21:53
quote: Now that would be something to see... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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