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brittle star

noun as in basket star

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To determine the evolutionary history of these structures, Przemysław Gorzelak at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and his team analysed 75-million-year-old brittle-star and starfish fossils using a scanning electron microscope.

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The starfish, which has abandoned the stalk, does not seem to prosper as yet, and the brittle-star appears.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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