This creature may look terrible and are similar to the alien or plant magic in the Harry Potter films are moving. Creature is this? Creatures that seem very complex and just caught in the ocean and then recorded is actually a relative of the starfish.
As quoted from Nature expands so Teacher , Basketball Star (Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae) are visible in the video here was caught off the coast of Singapore and kept waving 'hands' of her after being pulled out of the water.
This creature has five arms, each arm has branches that are used to capture prey underwater.
According to experts at Oregon State University, these creatures can live up to a depth of about 2 km below sea level, but frequently found living between a depth of 15 meters to 152 meters below sea level.
Although rarely seen, Basketball Star live along the Pacific Coast, from California to the Bering Sea to the south.
Saim Jr., a business executive from Singapore, claimed to have arrested Basketball Star which he filmed.
Basketball Star has five arms that come out from the disk center, like other members of the family echinoderms, which includes starfish, sea urchins and brittle stars.
But it is different from the Basketball Star starfish, because each arm having branches or tendrils are numerous and flexible, which can be used by those creatures to create a tangled web that is designed to ensnare even the plankton and small crustaceans.
Flexible tendrils that acts like a basket to catch their prey, because that creature is called Basketball Star or Star basket.
They positioned themselves in a place where there is a current strong enough to cause little creatures floating through it.
Basketball star stretched his arms to create the 'basket' as possible. Then grab prey with spiraling tendrils wrapped in plankton-plankton and small animals.
Very little is known about the feeding habits of these creatures, but it is known that the spines and hooks on the arm, as well as the mucus, making it difficult for prey to escape from his clutches.
Experts at the university explained: "Basketball Star-sulurnya tendrils wrap around prey, forming a knot. Binder sleeve is then pulled towards the center of the disk.
How can food be transferred through the disk to digest unknown.
Basketball Star can have a central disk diameter is 14cm and each arm they could be up to five times longer than their bodies. They are usually orange, red or white.
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