Sunflower Seastar: Terrifying Predator? | National Geographic

This animal is more than three feet wide and one of the fastest animals in its biome! It's also a very efficient scavenger.

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[NatGeo]

Sunflower Seastars are terrifying predators! Did you know that the Sunflower Seastar is one of the fastest animals in its biome and can travel up to 200 feet an hour?

[kashsmith]

Patrick hasn't been the same since he started taking steroids.

[FloatingSunfish]

To be fair, *_all_* starfish are terrifying.

[Marcopolo]

I was never creeped out by starfish until I found out that they can move, and learning how they eat

[tapsars]

Three feet wide ??! That is simply monstrous !!

[adamemac]

New narrator? I like her. That star fish is fascinating!! And over 3 ft wide?! Wow!

[scouserify]

This world is so amazing and diverse with life forms imagine the things we haven’t yet discovered

[flaminak]

Title and start of video: Sunflower Starfish is a “terrifying” predator! Later in video: *Shows it being prey to king crab*

[limae]

Wow GOD is so Awesome! The detail HE put in creating all the plants and animals and us!

[MattQrillz]

When it went towards the camera 0:16 i legit moved the phone from my face, it creeped me tf out

[cman]

You'll find these in cold water on the west coast of the U.S. I used to dive in Monterey Bay, CA, and would run into these beautiful star fish all the time. We would just call them "Sun Stars" for short.

Also, that crab is called a Decorator Crab. They put organic material on their back, like barnacles, seaweed, and other plant life to camouflage. You can find more extraordinary sea life in cold water vs warm water in my opinion.

[kazimhassan]

This is terrifying! I've never seen these scariest things in the world!

[johanindrapermana]

Starfish : moving 200 feet/hour
Human : 0 feet/hour watching YouTube

[tobywilliams]

If humans can regrow parts of their bodies, pranks would be at a new level

[jangasser]

Everyday you can learn something new stunning about nature.

[notkaitlyn]

Dear lord. This thing is absolutely terrifying.

[bennu]

Wow. Starmie be brutal. No wonder why Misty was such a challenge

[memos]

wait 1:17 what ?? so its "cloning" himself?

[JeferekiYtOfficial]

This sun star is is terrific but it's beautiful and wow they can move fast to 3ft!

[thechristianteen]

They just said these starfish can grow new selves from lost limbs if it has a significant portion of the central body. So dividing this starfish into 15 equal parts would make 15 different creatures