How does a starfish eat?
Inside-Out Snacker
How does a starfish eat?
Picture a starfish lounging on a rock at the bottom of the sea. No teeth. No jaws. No little face you'd recognize. And yet — it's about to eat a clam bigger than its own mouth. How? Buckle up, because a starfish eats in the strangest, most wonderfully backwards way imaginable.
First, let's find the mouth. Flip a starfish over and look at the very center of its underside — right where all five arms meet. That little opening in the middle? That's it. The whole starfish is basically a mouth wearing five arms as legs.
