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3 unusual facts about starfish


Chiswell Islands

Starfish, barnacles and other sea life that thrive in a rocky habitat are abundant.

NUST Starfish 5

Starfish 5 (Hai-Xing or Haixing, 海星) is a Chinese experimental UAV developed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) to gain knowledge of carrier landing technology.

Peter Koppes

In 1988 The Church had strong chart success in the USA and Australia with 'Under The Milky Way' and its corresponding album Starfish which included a song written earlier by Peter called 'A New Season.


Atlantic wolffish

They are known to frequently eat large whelks (Buccinum), cockles (Polynices, Chrysodomus and Sipho), sea clams (Mactra), large hermit crabs, starfish, sea urchins and green crabs (Carcinus maenas).

Austin Hobart Clark

Several animal species and genera were first scientifically described by Clark, including the Lesser Antillean Macaw (1905), the Martinique Parrot (1905), the Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw (1908), the Mulga Parrot (1910), the crustacean genus Laomenes (1919) or the starfish species Copidaster lymani (1948).

Cloud Master

In 2008, Starfish SD, a company founded by former Hot-B employees, bought the rights from Taito and developed a remake released on Nintendo Wii under the title The Monkey King: The Journey Begins, dubbed Shin Chuuka Taisen: Michael to Meimei no Bouken in Japan.

David C. Stuart

Stuart also served as producer on the MAC release Washington Heights, with Bobby Cannavale and David Zayas, Calling it Quits with Dennis Boutsikaris and Jessica Hecht, and Screen Door Jesus, winner of the Golden Starfish Award at the Hampton's International Film Festival.

Franz Hermann Troschel

A few of the species that contain his name are Troschel's sea star (Evasterias troschelii), Troschel's parrotfish (Chlorurus troschelii), Troschel's murex (Murex troschelii) and freshwater snail Bithynia troschelii.

Haddenham, Cambridgeshire

During the Second World War, Haddenham was a Starfish bombing decoy site, both K-type (day) and Q-type (night), which were used to divert Axis bombing away from RAF Bomber Command's nearby airfields.

Metridium farcimen

The starfish, Dermasterias imbricata, has been observed feeding on larger anemones in Puget Sound.

Large anemones have few predators but smaller specimens are eaten by the starfish, Pisaster spp.

Nottingham Blitz

A Starfish decoy fire system located near Cropwell Butler in the Vale of Belvoir confused the aircraft, and many of the bombs intended for Nottingham were dropped on open farmland in the vale.

NPO Novator

OKB-8 was the USSR's sole developer of warheads delivered by ASW missiles such as the RPK-2 Viyuga (SS-N-15 'Starfish') and RPK-6 Vodopad (SS-N-16 'Stallion')

Operation Fishbowl

The Starfish Prime radiation belt persisted at high altitude for many months and damaged the United States satellites Ariel, Traac, Transit 4B, Injun I and Telstar I.

Ozie Boo!

Other characters include Rajah the baby Siberian tiger, Mikky and Nikky the polar bear cubs, Mel the starfish, Wally and Polly the baby belugas, and Sky the albatross.

Pollicipes polymerus

In a carefully designed series of experiments they recorded the direct and indirect results on the numbers of goose barnacles, sea mussels, acorn barnacles, starfish and predatory whelks (Nucella spp.) present in the area.

Starfish site

As of 2000, there is a relatively intact control bunker for a co-located Starfish and Quick Light (QL) site at Liddington Hill overlooking Swindon.

Starfish Software

Starfish Software was founded in 1994 by Philippe Kahn (and his wife Sonia Lee), as a spin-off from the Simplify business unit from Borland and Kahn's severance from Borland.

The Famous Entrepreneurs Series

FES has also featured entrepreneurs and authors C.K. Prahalad, author of "Competing for the Future," Michael Treacy, author of "The Discipline of Market Leaders," and Rod Beckstrom, author of "The Starfish and the Spider”.

The Reigning Monarchs

Their music is frequently used on Walking the Room, Behrendt’s podcast with Dave Anthony, and the band performs live at the show's "Starfish Circus" events.


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