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Echinoderms
Echinoderm Videos
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Lesson Plan
Artful EchinodermsEngaging Students with Echinoderm Phenomena, Adaptations, and ArtFull Lesson Plan
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Factsheet
Echinoderms: The Spiny RebelsModern echinoderms, which include sea stars, urchins, sea cucumbers and sea lilies, have a unique body plan with a five-part symmetry.Download Factsheet
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Reading
Echinoderms: Give me Five, an Ultimate Animal"If there are animals from another planet already here, they're probably starfish."Download Reading
Features
Creature
Crown of Thorns Sea Star (COTS)
COTS can have up to twenty-one arms! These arms are flexible and can curl allowing them to move quickly over rocks and reefs. Learn more about their gnarly defenses.
Crown of Thorns Sea Star (COTS)
COTS can have up to twenty-one arms! These arms are flexible and can curl allowing them to move quickly over rocks and reefs. Learn more about their gnarly defenses.
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Scientist
Julia Notar Postdoctoral Scholar, Friday Harbor Labs University of Washington
Blurb: Julia is currently studying sea star vision, specifically eye growth from juvenile to adult. She wants to understand the life cycle of vision.
Julia Notar Postdoctoral Scholar, Friday Harbor Labs University of Washington
Blurb: Julia is currently studying sea star vision, specifically eye growth from juvenile to adult. She wants to understand the life cycle of vision.
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Did You Know?
Sunflower Stars Wanted
It’s not your typical “wanted” poster, but one of our team members spotted this on the coast north of San Francisco.
Sunflower Stars Wanted
It’s not your typical “wanted” poster, but one of our team members spotted this on the coast north of San Francisco.
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Shape of Life Blog
Echinoderm Vision
Sea stars have small true compound eyes on their arm tips, sometimes called optic cushions.
Echinoderm Vision
Sea stars have small true compound eyes on their arm tips, sometimes called optic cushions.
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