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Ruby brittle starfish

Echinoderms

Echinoderm Videos

Phyla

  • Echinoderms: The Ultimate Animal

Animation

  • Echinoderm Animation: Five-part symmetry
  • Echinoderm Animation: Sea Star Body Plan

Behavior

  • Echinoderms: Urchin Time-lapse Eating Kelp
  • Echinoderms: Sea Star Time-lapse: Pycnopodia Chases Snail
  • Echinoderms: Sea Star Time-lapse: Eating Dead Fish
  • Echinoderms: Sea Star Time-lapse: Eating Mussel
  • Echinoderms: Sea Star Time-lapse: Don Wobber’s Film

General Info

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Role in Ecosystem

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    Bee with arrows around it

Climate

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    Thermometer and waves

Human Interaction

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    Human next to globe

Paleontology

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    Skull of dinosaur
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    Artful Echinoderms
    Lesson Plan
    Artful Echinoderms
    Engaging Students with Echinoderm Phenomena, Adaptations, and Art

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    Purple echinoderms
    Factsheet
    Echinoderms: The Spiny Rebels
    Modern echinoderms, which include sea stars, urchins, sea cucumbers and sea lilies, have a unique body plan with a five-part symmetry.

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    Starfish that are blue, yellow, purple
    Reading
    Echinoderms: Give me Five, an Ultimate Animal
    "If there are animals from another planet already here, they're probably starfish."

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