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How did the starfish get its shape?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

My Science Life professer told me today after class when I asked that he belived the starfish was put on Earth that way. He said that he belived that if they had not been like that since the beginning of time, they just would have naturally adapted to do their surrondings by doing that. He said it might be a defense meconisim.

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