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Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @11:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the beauty-in-motion dept.

rob_on_earth writes:

Stanford news article on a Nature Physics paper regarding how tiny starfish larvae employ a complex and previously unknown survival mechanism involving whorls of water that either bring food to them or speed them away to better feeding grounds.

There is a beautiful hand drawn image of the vortices at the top of the article but this YouTube video showing the actual larvae swim and feed is like screen saver in places.

Nature is cool, evolution is weird.

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