The most amazing bipinnaria larvae of Luidia sarsii starfish

These are exceptionally large and unusual bipinnaria larvae of Luidia sarsii starfish collected and filmed at the Swedish shores of the North Sea, Skagerrak strait. These planktonic larvae float in the water column by contracting their bodies, and also help to spread the progeny of a starfish via the power of the ocean currents, as the adult starfish cannot travel that much. Because their larval body is so large (up to 35 mm), the juvenile starfish start to develop right inside of the translucent tissue of
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