Tag: starfish
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Fossil found in Germany shows starfish relative engaged in clonal fragmentation 150 million years ago
Phys.org has an article about starfish. In 2018, workers with the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart discovered a brittle star fossil in a 150 million year old Jurassic limestone from a German deposit. The animal was named Ophiactis hex. It was preserved while in the process of regenerating three of its arms. Many species…
