Starfish
If a starfish loses an arm, you know it's too hot. This peculiar behavior is part of a surprising survival strategy, allowing the animal to endure in warmer environments than previously thought. Ecologists initially believed that cold-blooded animals, known as thermostats, could only adapt to the temperature of their environment since they were unable to change their body temperature. However, Sylvain Pincebourde from the Institute of Insect Biology in Tours, France, and Eric Sanford from the University of California, Davis, USA, suspected that there might be more to it. To unravel the truth,
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