*not all starfish species have five arms
*one species (the sun star) can have up to 40 arms!
*sea stars can push their stomachs outside of their bodies
*sea stars exert their stomachs to digest their prey (typically mollusks) and then swallow their stomachs back into their bodies
*sea stars do not have blood and instead pump saltwater through their bodies
*they can reproduce sexually AND asexually
*to escape predators, sea stars can shed an arm
*sea stars can regenerate
*at the ends of their arms, there are eyes that can sense if it is light or dark
*their mouths are on the undersides of their bodies
*sea stars, aka starfish, aren't fish at all
*they are classified as "echinoderms" which is a type of invertebrate
*sea stars can actually be pretty heavy
*the largest recorded sea star species, the sunflower star, weighs 11 pounds
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