55 Amazing Facts About Starfishes That Will Blow Your Mind

55 Amazing Facts About Starfishes That Will Blow Your Mind

• Starfish have two stomachs.
• Starfish have no teeth.
• Starfish do not have bones.
• They can regenerate lost arms.
• Starfish usually have five arms.
• Starfish eat with their stomachs.
• Starfish can weigh up to 11 pounds.
• Starfish have no brain and no blood.
• The Starfish is also called Sea Star.
• The Starfish is intensely hard to kill.
• Starfish cannot survive in fresh water.
• There are around 2,000 species of sea star.
• Starfish can reproduce sexually and asexually.
• The average lifespan of a Starfish is 35 years.
• Starfish can produce glue with their tube feet.
• Starfish has an eye spot at the end of each arm.
• The female sea star can produce millions of eggs.
• The Starfish with forty arms is called “Sun Star”.
• It takes about a year to regenerate their lost arm.
• On an average, it grows to a length of about 8 inches.
• Instead of having eyeballs, starfish has an eye-spots.
• The Coscinasterias Calamaria starfish has eleven arms.
• The sunflower star is the largest Starfish in the world.
• Patiriella parvivipara is the smallest Starfish in the world.
• Starfish can be found below 6,000 meters of the ocean surface.
• The Starfish is sometimes eaten in China, Micronesia, and Japan.
• They move using tube feets, which are located on their underside.
• Starfish belong to a large group of marine animals called echinoderms.
• The Starfish is a carnivore who likes to eat clams, shells, and mussels.
• Starfish doesn’t possess fins, gills and they don’t even move like fish.
• Oh, and the new starfish is an EXACT genetic clone of the parent starfish.
• The largest populations of starfish live in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
• Starfish has spiny ridges on their skin which is made of calcium carbonate.
• The colorful skin helps them camouflaging from their hunters and attackers.
• Instead of having a backbone, starfish gets its shape from its exoskeleton.
• A Starfish in not a fish actually is related to sand dollars and sea urchins.
• Starfish can change gender from male to female or female to male at any time.
• Starfish’s closest relatives are sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers.
• If caught by a predator, they will drop their arms to escape then grow them back.
• They can have 5, 10, 20, and even up to 40 arms! TBH that's pretty freaking terrifying.
• Some starfish actually have night vision, making it easier for them to creep in the shadows.
• The most chilling part? That severed arm can actually grow into an entirely new starfish minion.
• If they ever get trapped, some starfish will literally tear an arm from their body just to get away.
• They use their senses to determine things like touch, light, temperature, location, and water composition.
• Just like the DC Comics villain Starro the Conqueror, starfish really do have the power of invulnerability.
• In addition to their tough, calcified exoskeleton, some starfish have sharp, venomous spines covering their body.
• Plus, most of them have an eye at the end of each arm — that means up to 40 eyes staring straight into your soul.
• Then, they slowly dissolve their meal outside of their body while their prey is helplessly trapped in their grips.
• Starfish come in many different colors like blue, green, white, red, pink, orange, yellow, brown, purple and black.
• With all of these disturbing powers, starfish must have really big brains, right? WRONG. Starfish actually lack brains.
• Starfish capture and consume their victims by ejecting their stomach out through their mouth like something out of a horror movie.
• There are many species of starfish that are deadly to humans, such as the crown of thorns, the sun star, the spiny sun star and the leather star.
• With such a cute facade, it's friggin' ALARMING to find out that they prey on sea creatures that are too slow to escape them, because they are savage AF.
• There are over 2,000 different species of starfish living in all kinds of extreme marine conditions, which means you can NEVER escape their villainous wrath.
• While villains are often described as cold-blooded, starfish are actually ~no-blooded~, instead circulating oxygen-rich seawater throughout their vascular system.

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