other-wordly-looking life form of the ocean. swirly beautiful brushstrokes of a creature; gentle translucent threads, and in the center a yellow and orange star-shape

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   benteh (benteh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 05:38:09 JST benteh

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   🦋 fabulous things i know about nature. 11/? #amazingNature 🦋

   a favourite: Luidia sarsii is a brittle star (starfish).

   it's fertilised egg becomes a larvae. INSIDE the larvae, a brittle star develops. INSIDE! then this "migrates" to the outside of the larvae… and they part ways. THEY. the brittle star falls to the ocean bottom and start its starfishy life, and the larvae continues to live as zooplankton for months 🤯