Study finds starfish shed arms to protect against overheating
Friday, May 31, 2013 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A team of marine biologists has found that some starfish lose a leg when faced with too-warm environmental conditions. In their paper published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, the researchers describe what they witnessed as they subjected 70 starfish to various heated environments and filmed the results with infrared cameras.