Starfish might have the coolest – and strangest – way of gobbling up a snack. I learned all about it from my friend Cori Kane. She studied coral reefs when she was a Ph.D. student at Washington State ...

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Divers clutch wooden spears as they hunt hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands already weakened by climate change.

The fourth outbreak of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish since 1962 is currently underway on the Great Barrier Reef. This image is free to share with credit.

In the name of survival, starfish sever their own body parts to escape predators. They will also eventually regenerate those lost limbs, but how this biological process works has remained a mystery.