http://www.mainesight.com/blog A New England Photographic Blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:02:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mainesight.com/blog/2009/07/13/starfish/ http://www.mainesight.com/blog/2009/07/13/starfish/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:13:32 +0000 Paul http://www.mainesight.com/blog/?p=191 At low tide, there are hundreds of these starfish on the barnacle encrusted rocks in Hancock, Maine. I’ve read (in a book by Thorton W. Burgess) that a single arm of a starfish can re-grow an entire new starfish. How does that happen? Wouldn’t that mean that the starfish’s arm has to first grow a new stomach so that it can gather food for what must be a pretty seriously energy intensive re-building process?

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