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 stars, crabs, shrimp and worms live in the limbs of these corals as birds and insects do in the branches of trees in a rainforest.

其他诸如海星、蟹类、虾类以及蠕虫等也像雨林中的鸟类和昆虫栖息在树木的枝叶间一样生活在这些珊瑚的枝杈间。

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They can even touch some of these creatures in small tide pools. Workers make sure visitors touch the rays, crabs and sea stars very carefully.

游客们甚至还可以在小水槽里触摸海洋生物，但工作人员要游客在触摸鳐鱼、螃蟹和海星时一定要小心。

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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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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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The first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, compiled the most accurate star catalogue of his day as part of this attempt (though the solution was eventually provided by John Harrison, a clock maker who designed a timepiece that was robust enough to withstand the rigours of sea travel, and was thus able to substitute for the stars in the relevant calculations).

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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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