If their leg gets bitten off, they can easily grow another leg. also, they have sponges like a octopuse to protect them selves.
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Starfish ( asteroidia and ophiuroidia ) really don't need to defend themselves, as they're on nobody's food chain. Due to the incredibly small amount of nutritious tissue coupled with the fibrous or bony exoskeleton, nothing in the ocean, a...
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Echino means “spiny,” and derm means “skin.” These spines protect starfish from tiny sea creatures that try to attach themselves to them and feed off their strength.
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www.hopeway.org/gospel/TheAmazingStarfish.asp?ct=1
www.hopeway.org/gospel/TheAmazingStarfish.asp?ct=1
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Starfish are star shaped animals that live in the bottom of the sea. Their family name is "Echinoderm" which includes: Brittle stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumber and Sea Stars. It's mouth is in the middle of it's body and it's eye's on the end of it's legs.
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www.angelfire.com/ak2/mysticconnection/aa/starfish.html
www.angelfire.com/ak2/mysticconnection/aa/starfish.html
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What do Starfish eat? ... Starfish are carnivores (they eat meat); Like clams, oysters, and fish; ... Sometimes starfish eat other starfish.
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teacherportfolio.indstate.edu/hermit_firstgrade/starfis...
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The starfish crawls along the ground. It sucks up its food The starfish lays many eggs to have babies. The starfish protect themselves in the sand.
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www.beacy.wa.edu.au/classwk/clwk2004/rm11seastories.htm
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Starfish eat by wrapping themselves around the sea urchin and then everting their stomach against the sea urchin to dissolve away the flesh and shell, ... To protect themselves intertidal sea urchins will pile rocks and shells on top of themselves. Over generations they create scooped out burrows in the soft rock,
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www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/nathistory.html
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How do echinoderms protect themselves from predation? ... Scientists have been studying the chemical defenses of echinoderms to identify what types of defenses protect them against certain predators. In a recent study, body wall sections of a variety of echinoderms were fed to fishes and crabs, common starfish predators.
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www.glencoe.com/sec/science/biology/bdol/updates/update...
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b. Fish protection: Talk about the way fish protect themselves from larger fish. Explain that in real life, fish and other water animals have many different means of protection. The following samples may be used: ... Starfish use tube feet to open a clam's shell, then push their stomachs into the shell to take the clam.
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