Life Before Death

March 7, 2008

Friday Pic #7: Little Star

Filed under: Friday Pic

Nearly as cute as the chickens from two weeks ago, this is a tiny planktonic sea star larva:

Sea star larva

The part that actually looks like a star was only a couple of millimeters across but had a fully functioning ambulacral system, complete with tiny flailing suckers that it used to crawl across the bottom of my petri dish.

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