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Starfish

S tarfish are topsy-turvy animals. Their eyes are at the end of

their arms. Their mouth is underneath where their bottom

should be, and their bottom is on top where their head should
be. In fact, they don’t even have a head. Somehow they
move around without a brain or heart, and instead of

blood, they are full of seawater.

Under each of a starfish’s arms are hundreds of sticky feet.
They grab prey and carry it to the mouth. The starfish then

pushes its stretchy stomach out of its body, digests the meal, and
sucks it back in! Amazingly, if a starfish loses an arm, it grows

back—some starfish can regrow their whole body from just one arm.

Red spine star, Indian
and Pacific Oceans
Red cushion star,
western Atlantic Ocean
and Caribbean Sea

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