The 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.
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Seastars within the Pterasteridae family sat at the top, with the study dubbing them “the benthic equivalent to polar bears.” He said that invertebrates, or creatures without backbones, living in sediment on the Arctic sea floor did not just consist of plant-eating herbivores.
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