{"id":771004,"date":"2023-11-01T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771004"},"modified":"2023-11-01T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T16:00:02","slug":"long-presumed-to-have-no-heads-at-all-starfish-may-be-nothing-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771004","title":{"rendered":"Long presumed to have no heads at all, starfish may be nothing but"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, naturalists have puzzled over what might constitute the head of a sea star, commonly called a &#8220;starfish.&#8221; When looking at a worm, or a fish, it&#8217;s clear which end is the head and which is the tail. But with their five identical arms\u2014any of which can take the lead in propelling sea stars across the seabed\u2014it&#8217;s been anybody&#8217;s guess how to determine the front end of the organism from the back. This unusual body plan has led many to conclude that sea stars perhaps don&#8217;t have a head at all.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-11-presumed-starfish.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long presumed to have no heads at all, starfish may be nothing but<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, naturalists have puzzled over what might constitute the head of a sea star, commonly called a &#8220;starfish.&#8221; When looking at a worm, or a fish, it&#8217;s clear which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}