<story><title>Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/world/starfish-head-body-plan-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloopernova</author><text>Starfish are bizarre. They start as a bilaterally symmetrical larva, then grow a stalk that attaches to the sea bed. They grow, then rearrange themselves into a pentaradially symmetrical form.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Starfish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Starfish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plus they can regenerate from a severed limb! Creepy, but very interesting too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oboes</author><text>An even more bizarre animal is Dendrogaster, a starfish parasite. Believe it or not, but it&amp;#x27;s a crustacean.&lt;p&gt;It grows inside a starfish&amp;#x27;s body cavity until filling it completely, which explains the strange shape of the parasite.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.australiangeographic.com.au&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;creatura-blog&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;the-dendrogaster-parasite-is-the-stuff-of-nightmares&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.australiangeographic.com.au&amp;#x2F;blogs&amp;#x2F;creatura-blog&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/world/starfish-head-body-plan-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloopernova</author><text>Starfish are bizarre. They start as a bilaterally symmetrical larva, then grow a stalk that attaches to the sea bed. They grow, then rearrange themselves into a pentaradially symmetrical form.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Starfish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Starfish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plus they can regenerate from a severed limb! Creepy, but very interesting too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polishdude20</author><text>Jellyfish are really weird too. They produce like spores that then go down to the surface and create factories that create little baby jellyfish.</text></comment>