http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starfish-wonders-in-alaska EPA's Blog About Our World Tue, 21 May 2013 17:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-36861 Jim Neale Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:31:41 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-36861 I have just finished reading about starfish and decided to investigate some more and found your site.
I read that if you cut a starfish into 10 pieces and throw them back into the water that each piece will grow to a new complete starfish.
I wonder how they could have evolved this amazing function over millions of years? How could the first limb lost to some accident grow a new starfish?
Also that the most amazing thing that they do is when they pry open an oyster or clam, that they then push their stomach out through their mouth and surround the soft parts of their victim with their exposed stomach. When finished they then retrieve their stomach and continue their searh for more food.
Why not just eat the oyster or clam and digest it inside like all other creatures?

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-21083 Jackenson Durand Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:00:19 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-21083 Back to my childhood my friends and I used to catch these kinds of species in my native country coastal area. These star fishes are wonderful as I personally observed.
Planet Earth is very amazing for by his Eco-Systemic creativity. That brings me to understand our two polar hemispheric biodiversity by producing giant’s fishes in North Pole.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-21061 Michael E. Bailey Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:18:19 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-21061 The waters of the North Pacific are some of the most productive in the world and the large number and variety of starfish along the Alaska Coast is a testiment to that. The natural processes are finely tuned. Greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere from north America could damage the fragile balance by causing the polar ice cap to melt alot faster, releasing more carbon, raising sea level, and raising water temperature. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-21035 Brenda-EPA Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:58:11 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-21035 Thanks for clarifying Johnny R.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-21022 Johnny R. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:28:08 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-21022 The reason the starfish have lasted so long is they live in balance with their environment. Species that don’t tend to go extinct.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-21021 Brenda-EPA Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:24:50 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-21021 I found out this information while researching for my blog.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/09/starfish-wonders-in-alaska/comment-page-1/#comment-21017 Elad Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:40:11 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1115#comment-21017 How could you possibly conclude that they are 500,000,000 years old in a process of their kind of life? Isn’t that a rather large reach?

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