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Curr Biol 2014 Mar 03;245:R200-1. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.032.
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Animal vision: starfish can see at last.

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Starfish have small compound eyes at the ends of their arms. Until recently no behavioural function had been found for them, but now it appears that starfish are able to use them to navigate to the edges of reefs from which they sometimes stray.

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