Get smart curated videos delivered to your inbox.   SUBSCRIBE
The Kid Should See This

The largest sea star in the world: a sunflower sea star eating

Watch more with these video collections:

What if you didn’t send food down to your stomach to digest it, but you sent your stomach up to your food instead? This is exactly what the sunflower seastar does. With 16 to 24 arms and 15,000 tube feet to help grab, open and eat clams, snails, abalone, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.

The sunflower star is the largest sea star in the world. It’s also one of the fastest animals on the ocean bottom, crawling one metre… a minute, which may not seem that fast to us but is speedy if you’re a clam just chillin’ on the sand. 

You can read more about the sunflower seastar at aquablog.ca.

This Webby award-winning video collection exists to help teachers, librarians, and families spark kid wonder and curiosity. TKSST features smarter, more meaningful content than what's usually served up by YouTube's algorithms, and amplifies the creators who make that content.

Curated, kid-friendly, independently-published. Support this mission by becoming a sustaining member today.

🌈 Watch these videos next...

Why do tapirs like being underwater?

Rion Nakaya

What do sand dollars look like when they’re alive?

Rion Nakaya

Under The Dock, a marine life series by Hakai Institute

Rion Nakaya

These stunning sea slugs steal ‘weapons’ from their ingested hydroid prey

Rion Nakaya

The tawny frogmouth at the Brookfield Zoo

Rion Nakaya

The strange and amazing barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma)

Rion Nakaya

The Stomphia coccinea sea anemone can swim

Rion Nakaya

The sea cucumber’s multipurpose rear end

Rion Nakaya

The Sarcastic Fringehead

Rion Nakaya