starfish
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150-Million-Year-Old Brittle Star Fossilized in the Middle of Cloning Itself
To the untrained eye, the ancient brittle star fossil above looks like what you’d expect of a now-especially-brittle echinoderm. But the fossil is quite rare: It captures the moment at which the brittle star was cloning itself, regenerating three of its arms as it died. The specimen was a chance find during a 2018 dig…
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22 Great Recent Movies You May Have Missed
The start of a new year always means things slow down at theatres. Holiday hits and awards movies are still playing but once you see those, pickings are very slim. What’s a movie lover to do? Go back, we say. Go back.
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Some Unexpected Faces May Appear In Game Of Thrones’ Final Season
Star Wars rumours squashed. Toys tease even more looks for Avengers: Endgame. And the Pirates of the Caribbean reboot has already hit troubled waters! Plus what’s to come on Supergirl, Charmed and Roswell.
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An Autonomous Submarine Will Hunt Starfish On The Great Barrier Reef For Science
Building a hunter-killer robot that is programmed to terminate an entire species is normally the job of the bad guys. But when said species is the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feeds off coral, that robot is actually fulfilling a vital mission.