{"id":344232,"date":"2025-08-09T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344232"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:45:12","slug":"starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfish\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Scientists have discovered that a bacterium caused the 2013 starfish die-off, which killed about 5 billion sea stars by causing sea star wasting disease, where their limbs fall off and bodies break down.<\/p>\n<h2>About Starfish<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344240\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-344240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-National-Geographic.jpg?resize=331%2C331&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-National-Geographic.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-National-Geographic.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-National-Geographic.jpg?resize=768%2C771&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-National-Geographic.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; National Geographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"191\">Starfish are marine animals belonging to the echinoderm group, commonly called \u201csea stars\u201d due to their distinctive star-shaped body.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"287\"><strong data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"206\">Feeding:<\/strong> They are primarily predators, preying on invertebrates like mussels and clams.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"378\"><strong data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"307\">Regeneration:<\/strong> Many species possess the ability to regenerate lost or damaged arms.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"523\"><strong data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"404\">Circulatory System:<\/strong> They lack blood; instead, seawater circulates through their water vascular system to transport nutrients and oxygen.<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1100\">Habitat<\/strong> \u2013 They are <strong>benthic in nature.<\/strong> They are <strong>found in all marine environments, from intertidal zones to depths of 6,000 m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Scientists have discovered that a bacterium caused the 2013 starfish die-off, which killed about 5 billion sea stars by causing sea star wasting disease, where their limbs fall off and bodies break down. About Starfish Starfish are marine animals belonging to the echinoderm group, commonly called \u201csea stars\u201d due to their distinctive star-shaped body.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/starfish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starfish\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-344232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}