Starfish have a surprising talent for squeezing foreign bodies out through the skin

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

Starfish have strange talents. Two biology students from University of Southern Denmark have revealed that starfish are able to squeeze foreign bodies along the length of their body cavities and out through their arm tips. This newly discovered talent gives insight into how certain animals are able to quickly heal themselves.

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