Scientists couldn’t find the head of the starfish. Turns out, the entire thing is head, it’s the body that is missing.

  • brianorca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of the previous theories had the head in the middle and tail at the edge of the arms. But this study showed that the DNA markers for “head” are expressed all through the starfish, and there are no “tail” markers at all.

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      1 year ago

      So what I’m getting here is that they basically proved that Starfish evolved from a clade that predates the development of basically everything we consider an animal save for spongeoforms