Brittle stars are closely related to starfish. According to BBC, they are brainless creatures having only a nerve ring and nerve cords in their five arms. There is no central processing centre, and ...

If you find a live sand dollar, return it to the sea. To check if a starfish is dead, it will look brittle, discolored or disintegrating. However, some live starfish can wash up on shore and look ...

Brittlestars are related to starfish and have a rounded disc-like body with thin flexible arms. According to the Environment Agency marine life such as whole invertebrates like brittlestars can ...

"You can also find brittle stars, which are close relatives of starfish and live up to their name – they have very long, thin, and brittle arms, which can break easily or the animal will even ...

brittle starfish, clams, sea anemones, hermit crabs encased in seashells, snail shells and their fragile exoskeleton (they can be spotted by their jerkier movement compared with snails), nerite ...

A team of paleontologists from Germany and Austria reports that a brittle star fossil found in ... commonly called a "starfish." When looking at a worm, or a fish, it's clear which end is the ...

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“This decimated marine life and caused erratic population surges of species such as brittle starfish, whelks, starfish and sea slugs, disrupting the delicate balance of life that exists in the region.

In an astonishing discovery, a 155-million-year-old fossil reveals a brittle star—a relative of the starfish—in the midst of cloning itself, offering unprecedented insight into ancient marine ...