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These aquatic, plant-like animals related to sea stars and sea urchins are formally called crinoids.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025 Purple sea urchin populations have exploded in Oregon in recent years after a die-off of another of the shellfishes' top predators — sunflower sea stars.—Kale Williams, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025 However, predators like sea stars and snails have evolved olfactory receptors specifically tuned to detect these compounds, turning the barnacles’ defensive mechanism into a homing beacon.—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 The rarest sighting of the day, however, was a giant starfish known as a sunflower sea star — its 20 or so arms can span three feet.—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sea star
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