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According to a recent study, baby starfish may appear lovable and innocent, but they re tiny little cannibals and feed on their own siblings for survival.
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Behavior of Baby Starfish 
Two scientists found this behavior among baby Forbes sea stars (Asterias forbesi) unexpectedly. Initially, they were trying to obtain knowledge on how baby sea stars behave when presented to ferocious crab predators in the lab.
Jon Allen, associate professor in William & Mary s Department of Biology, said in a statement: But they all begin to eat each other even before we initiated the crabs. So we had to do away with that experiment, Jon and his colleagues shifted gears to examine this previously secret phenomenon within the baby sea stars.  ....

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