Hi everyone!
This is the 12th part of my series of writings about uncommon sea creatures. Today I would like to talk about the Feather Stars. These amazing exactly looks like sea plant but they are animals.
They belong to crinoid species having the free-swimming ability, some of them are attached to sea ground when they are small but when they are adults they gain the free-swimming ability.
They can regenerate themselves from their detached arms and possess astonishing regenerative ability. They are being lived at least four hundred years ago and have at least five thousand species under the seafloor.
And these sea animals can be found till now in the Indian ocean and Atlantic ocean.
Small Feather Star starts with five arms but when they grow to adult the arms increase in ten. But some of them have up to two hundred arms. They can anchor themself to the corals and other plants, stones of the sea ground.
Thanks for reading my post. Hope that you have learned something new. If you have ever seen this sea fascinating creature then comment below and let me know about it.😀
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