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How can a starfish be destroyed?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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The only way a starfish(sea star) can die is if it is dried up. If it is split in half, both halves live and can come together again. It's really weird how this works, but, hey, life's life!!! "Starfish occasionally lose one of their arms due to predation or other injury. Most of the time they are able to regenerate the missing arm. In fact, sometimes a starfish arm can regenerate into an entirely new starfish, but usually only if a portion of the central body is still attached to the arm."(Taken from site listed below)

I hope this helped!!! If you want to learn more about starfish, go to this wesite:

http://www.aboutfishonline.com/articles/starfish.html

It has some cool pictures and facts! Check 'em out!!!!

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The preferred method in controlling starfish is direct injection of a poison, as in the invasive species called the "crown of thorns" starfish.

There is considerable confusion over whether a starfish can survive if cut up into pieces ("disarmed"). While starfish can regenerate lost limbs, the central body part is the only part that survives, and slowly replaces the limbs it has lost.

Only in species such as the blue starfish (Linckia) is there any significant regeneration of central organs, although many starfish sections may "survive" for a considerable time after being cut up. Other starfish use division as a means of reproduction, by splitting after creating sets of internal organs.

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starfish can die by being eaten by another organism bigger than it's self

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Nearly all the time , In nearly every ocean,sea,puddle,river and waterfall in the world.

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senceless: meet grinder or shot gun

natural: shark or natural predator

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how many staryfish can starfishs have? The answer is about million. But 99% or their babies get aeten

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