i thought it was lobsters
It's hard to comprehend the destruction this ethereal creature could do in its lifetime — a juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish, raised in a lab where researchers have discovered worrying new findings about its progression into adulthood.
Research published today from the University of Sydney and Southern Cross University's National Marine Science Centre in Coffs Harbour has found the crown-of-thorns starfish will eat a much more varied diet as juveniles than previously thought, making them worryingly resilient.
As juveniles the crown-of-thorns starfish are vegetarian, favouring a particular type of algae.
But the study found they they would eat much more in order to survive.
"We initially thought that they only ate crustose coralline algae but we found that they can also eat biofilm, which is a mixture of diatoms, bacteria, and other microorganisms that grow pretty much everywhere in the ocean," Dr Mos said.
The findings offer a significant change in thought on the life cycle of the crown-of-thorns starfish, and raises the spectre of it being a much more dangerous predator.
Journal Reference:
Dione J. Deaker, Benjamin Mos, Huang-An Lin, et al. Diet flexibility and growth of the early herbivorous juvenile crown-of-thorns sea star, implications for its boom-bust population dynamics, PLOS ONE (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236142)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:36PM (2 children)
Can this starfish eat niggers? If so, it might be useful. Feed all the niggers to this creature. Problem solved!
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:58PM
Better idea: feed it trolls.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Subsentient on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:03PM
Why are these abhorrent, racist trolls still funny to me? What's wrong with me? If there is a hell, I'm going there. I'm sure I'll fit right in.
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Zinnia Zirconium on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:42PM (1 child)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:45PM
Do you actually have anything coherent to say? That screed didn't make one bit of sense, you stupid nigger. This is about starfish, not bees, dumbfuck.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:50PM (1 child)
Dunno, but if I heard something being referred to as the cockroach of the sea I would assume it to be pretty damn resilient.
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Sunday July 26 2020, @08:20AM
They are, you can hack them to pieces, poison them, smash them, and they just keep on going, they grow new starfish from the hacked-up pieces. There are a few effective poisons such as injecting each one individually with some horrible chemical-biological mixture, but it's a pretty horrific way to kill them in terms of what it does to them.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @08:06PM (2 children)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @08:25PM (1 child)
Come pick up your retarded uncle, he escaped the attic again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:03AM
OK. I'm on my way. Maybe I'll stash him in the crawlspace under the house this time. He's always liked that musty smell.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @08:13PM (1 child)
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Subsentient on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:06PM
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @08:49PM
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* I hate niggers more than ever and I'm not ashamed of it one fucking bit. Fuck all kikes, too.
Don't even think about trying your spam mod bullshit with me. I own this fucking shithole and you stupid niggers can't stop me. I own this fucking shithole and you stupid niggers can't stop me. Fuck all of you rotten bastards & tranny kikes. You niggers can't hold a candle to anything I've accomplished.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:27PM (5 children)
Crown-of-Thorns sounds a lot like Corona -- maybe this starfish is the Corona virus of the sea?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:38PM (4 children)
First class sleuthing Mr. President.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:44PM (3 children)
Hey, who just dumped a tanker load of bleach into the ocean?
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:58PM (2 children)
One of these days I'm going to empty out a bottle of Clorox, fill it with soda or powerade or something, and use it as my water bottle on the bus.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:40AM (1 child)
lol.
you know on the bottle label it's got a warning to not reuse the container... just saying.
would storing some diluted muriatic acid in it neutralize any sodium hypochlorite that might be in the plastic? or just deionized/distilled water?
But otherwise that'd be seriously funny, but funny out in public could be hazardous to your health these days, too.
Jukin Media would pay for reaction vids tho.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:40PM
I would not sweat the bleach too much.
Bleach is actually recommended to sanitize drinking water in an emergency.
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/making-water-safe.html [cdc.gov]
Just rinse the bottle out good. You won't get the taste out of it, but I can see the sight gag.
Do Not do this with poisons.
FWIW, I like to use those 220 ml PET whiskey bottles to keep my Diesel fuel additive in. It is just the right size for a fill up dose, and the long bottle neck makes it easy to get the dose of additive into my van's fuel inlet. They are rugged bottles, have well fitting caps that do not leak, and diesel stuff attacks most other plastics.
I get the most unusual comments when others see me apparently fueling my van with booze.
And I have also a lot of interest, and mirth, at those roadside sobriety checks when the officer spies my bottle of additive in the dash tray. They think they nailed me until I surrender it to the officer requesting that he sniff it first. Then we both laugh at it.
So I can see your sight gag. One of the checkers at our local supermarket uses a bottle of Hershey chocolate syrup as a water bottle.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:02PM (4 children)
https://animals.mom.me/cockroaches-sea-4819.html [animals.mom.me]
Restauranteurs feed them to rich people.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:22PM (3 children)
These days lobsters are for the rich. But go back a few decades and they were the crawfish of the sea, and mainly eaten by the poor. (OTOH, Jack London was a lobster pot pirate, so you might need to go back before the middle 1800's.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:31AM (1 child)
They're OK, but overrated, I feel. Shrimp taste better, and king crab is even meatier and more delicious than lobster.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday July 26 2020, @12:49PM
I will never know what they find in caviar.
I considered it a vile tasting substance, I would probably starve it its all I had to eat.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by zoward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:33AM
In the US colonial days, lobsters were considered repulsive and often fed to prisoners.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @10:44PM
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @01:21AM
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* I hate niggers more than ever and I'm not ashamed of it one fucking bit. Fuck all kikes, too.
Don't even think about trying your spam mod bullshit with me. I own this fucking shithole and you stupid niggers can't stop me. I own this fucking shithole and you stupid niggers can't stop me. Fuck all of you rotten bastards & tranny kikes. You niggers can't hold a candle to anything I've accomplished.
APK
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:09PM
i thought the $starfish is the main predator of those 'em black pointy needle cyclops thingys?
better wear shoes if you jump out the boat onto the beach-interface if there's no $starfishes around?