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The strawberry feather star lives as deep as 3,800 feet under the ocean surface, the authors estimate—a fittingly extreme home for a far-out animal.
—Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
Wilson and her colleagues reported the Antarctic strawberry feather star and three other new feather star species in a study published in July in the journal Invertebrate Systematics.
—Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
Antarctic feather stars live at ocean depths ranging from 65 to 6500 feet, according to the report.
—Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
Some denizens that live on the Antarctic seafloor today, such as certain species of feather star, solve this problem by relying on water currents to bring a steady flow of oxygen and nutrients from the small areas of open water at the surface to deep below the ice shelves.
—Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
In a day or two, its colour pattern will change, enabling it to blend in with the feather star.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above
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“Feather star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feather%20star. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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