There's a hungry Arctic predator with a lot of arms that eats dead polar bears

A new study by a national research group says starfish tie with polar bears as the top predators of the Arctic marine ecosystem.

Thousands of small starfish wash ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, S.C., Monday, June 29, 2020. A national research group says it has proven that seastars are tied with polar bears as the top predator of the coastal Arctic marine ecosystem. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jason Lee/The Sun News via APThe voracious carnivores are seastars, better known as starfish, and a new study by a national research group says they tie with polar bears as the top predators of the Arctic marine ecosystem.

Seastars within the Pterasteridae family sat at the top, with the study dubbing them "the benthic equivalent to polar bears." "You have a whole food web, including primary predators, herbivores and many carnivores. So it's way more complex than what we thought," Amiraux said.

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