Friday, March 21, 2014

The Basket Star

Photo: Pink sea star on rocky seafloor


Basket Star


Basket stars, like this one in California’s Monterey Bay, live along North America’s Pacific coast from the Bering Sea to California. The sea stars feed by using their intricate webs of branching arms to snag zooplankton drifting by in the current.












(source:google/http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/)

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