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sea star

noun



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Word History and Origins

Origin of sea star1

First recorded in 1560–70
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Example Sentences

For example, they’ve witnessed people wading into the water in the tidepools, a sensitive habitat that’s home to a variety of sea life, including octopus, urchins, sea stars, crustaceans and small fish.

While sunflower stars have not recovered, adult ochre sea stars on rocky shores are growing in size and number to what was measured before the disease epidemic.

When the disease first broke out in the Caribbean, “we were scratching our heads,” says Ian Hewson, an oceanographer at Cornell University who has studied diseases in sea stars and other marine animals.

The pandemic led to an estimated 90% decline in sunflower sea stars, which are now listed as critically endangered.

A recently discovered fossil from Germany pushes the origin of cloning sea stars back more than 150 million years.

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