Our sunflower stars in bulking season 💪🌻⭐️ A steady diet of purple urchins helps @sunflowerstarlab’s stars #GetSwol and train for their role as keystone kelp forest predators! Our stars have no problem engulfing multiple urchins in a matter of minutes. Urchins eat kelp. Sunflower stars scare and eat urchins. Check out the 🔗 in our bio or head to sunflowerstarlab.org to learn how you can help restore the sunflower star and save our kelp forests. #conservation #aquaculture #pycnopodia #sunflowe
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Our sunflower stars in bulking season 💪🌻⭐️ A steady diet of purple urchins helps @sunflowerstarlab’s stars #GetSwol and train for their role as keystone kelp forest predators! Our stars have no problem engulfing multiple urchins in a matter of minutes. Urchins eat kelp. Sunflower stars scare and eat urchins. Check out the 🔗 in our bio or head to sunflowerstarlab.org to learn how you can help restore the sunflower star and save our kelp forests. #conservation #aquaculture #pycnopodia #sunflowe
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Sunflower Star Laboratory on Instagram: "Meet the sunflower sea star 🌻🌊⭐️ Sunflower stars are keystone predators in kelp forest ecosystems, eating and scaring urchins to keep them from overgrazing kelp. This #SunflowerStarWeek, @sunflowerstarlab, @montereybayaquarium, @calacademy, and @birchaquarium will be highlighting this superstar of the sea and the work being done by us and our partners, including @ca_conserve, @noaa, and others, to restore the sunflower star and bring balance back to our
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Sunflower Star Laboratory on Instagram: "Meet the sunflower sea star 🌻🌊⭐️ Sunflower stars are keystone predators in kelp forest ecosystems, eating and scaring urchins to keep them from overgrazing kelp. This #SunflowerStarWeek, @sunflowerstarlab, @montereybayaquarium, @calacademy, and @birchaquarium will be highlighting this superstar of the sea and the work being done by us and our partners, including @ca_conserve, @noaa, and others, to restore the sunflower star and bring balance back to our
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Don't be fooled by its pleasant name—the sunflower star is a terrifying predator. | National Geographic
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Don't be fooled by its pleasant name—the sunflower star is a terrifying predator. | National Geographic
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Wait ‘till the ‘SAIL’ starfriends 🤯⭐️ Sunflower stars are large and in charge in nearshore marine environments, hoovering up prey and scaring the coelomic fluid out of almost any hapless echinoderm to get in their path. This sunflower star, recorded by starfriend @underwaterpat in Alaska, parts the brittle star sea as it marauds its way along the ocean floor. You can run, but eventually the pycno will catch you. Imagine five BILLION more of these sea roombas slurping urchins from Alaska to Baja
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Wait ‘till the ‘SAIL’ starfriends 🤯⭐️ Sunflower stars are large and in charge in nearshore marine environments, hoovering up prey and scaring the coelomic fluid out of almost any hapless echinoderm to get in their path. This sunflower star, recorded by starfriend @underwaterpat in Alaska, parts the brittle star sea as it marauds its way along the ocean floor. You can run, but eventually the pycno will catch you. Imagine five BILLION more of these sea roombas slurping urchins from Alaska to Baja
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*Smells an urchin* “Hold my sea grapes” 🌊🍇 Titan smash! Urchins don’t stand a chance when our pycnos are on the prowl. Sunflower stars eat and scare urchins, reducing their population and making them hide more and eat less. After sunflower stars died off due to disease in our state starting in 2013, 97% of Northern California’s kelp forests have disappeared, in large part due to urchin overgrazing. Let’s restore the sunflower star, starfriends. #conservation #aquaculture #pycnopodia #sunflower
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Pycnopodia Helianthoides, or the Sunflower Sea Star, is the largest known starfish in the world. Adults stars can have as many as 24 limbs and measure over three feet across. They are a predatory species and can travel up to ten feet per minute, which is Usain Bolt-level fast for a sea star. This fascinating animal, once abundant along the Pacific coast from Alaska to northern Mexico, has been devastated by a disease called wasting syndrome. The disease has wiped out as much as 90% of the sunflo
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