Starfish or sea stars have crude eyes on the tip of their arms. Each of their arms has an eye that looks like a red spot. These eyes cannot see full details but can sense dark and light and crude images so that they can find their way back to coral reefs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Surprise! Scientists Find How Starfish See With Their Eyes (nationalgeographic.com)
The Antarctic Sun starfish, Labidiaster annulatus, is a two-foot wide sea star found in the waters around Antarctica. It starts out with five rays but can add over 40 arms in between as it grows. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Absurd Creature of the Week: The Two-Foot-Wide Sea Star That’s Basically a Bear Trap | WIRED
The Australian Great Barrier Reef is under attack by venomous sea stars known as crown-of-thorns starfish. Scientists created a robot called RangerBot to shoot them with bile. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/rangerbot-programmed-to-kill/
The band Coldplay was originally formed under the name of Pectoralz, and later changed to Starfish. It wasn’t until Will Champion joined that they became Coldplay.
