Adventures of the Blackgang

nemfrog:

“A deep water starfish.” Half hours with the lower animals. c.1905. Processed image.

tomorrowcomesomedayblog:

Jewels of the sea : Giant starfish

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nemfrog:

Archaster bifrons. The depths of the sea. 1874. 

Döderlein’s Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)

oldbookillustrations:

Sea cucumber, Sea urchin, Starfish.

Paul Flanderky, from Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s animal life) first volume, under the direction of Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig & Vienna, 1918.

(Source: archive.org)

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rhamphotheca:

alexandstein: Here’s a cool deformed sea star a friend showed me! 

Here’s the underside.

* This malformation probably occurred after the sea star lost the end of its arm and as it regenerated it, 2 arm tips emerged. This happens occasionally. :3

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Estrela do mar

Sea star

in Balthazar Santos e Mattoso Santos, Atlas de Zoologia, 1907