When sea stars are removed, species diversity falls sharply.

海星消失后，物种多样性急剧下降。

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For example, sea stars prey on a variety of bivalve mollusks and prevent these bivalves from monopolizing habitats on the sea floor.

例如，海星捕食各种双壳类软体动物，防止这些双壳类动物独占海底的栖息地。

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Sea urchins and sea stars are close relatives.

海胆和海星是近亲。

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The stars turn into sea routes, which turn into sailing maps, which then form the shape of a ship.

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And I find it hard to recognize some relatives of ours like the rotifer, the sycamore, iguanas and sea stars.

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The study was particularly noteworthy because alarmists claim ocean acidification will take its greatest toll on marine invertebrates such as sea stars, which will allegedly have more difficulty calcifying their external skeletons in water with more carbon dioxide.

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Gentle Mary, from whom foolish children ran in fright, but who braided my hair, cared for me like I was her own and talked of the sea and the stars.

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