This was in an aquarium. I'm identifying a lot of shells and skeletons in our collection and had this non native starfish. We only have books to ID native animals

Do you think there is a way to make it easier to look up a species based on just the skeleton?

Thank you for the help!

Would it be better to tie the common name to the genus? How do you narrow the skeleton down to the species?

I'm in Washington State. It was found in the collection of my aquarium. I thought it could be that genus but idk what the characteristics are. Would you or I be able to update the Wikipedia entry for this species to include the common name I had found?

Is there a book or good resource on identifying echinoderms of the world? I saw someone selling these online, or a similar star, saying they were imported from the Philippines. Thank you in advance for the help!

Opalescent Inshore Squid mate in Washington state in the fall to winter and form massive congregations of tens of thousand (if not hundreds of thousands) of squid.

They systematically go through a single persons videos and copy them verbatim with themselves. It is just reposting, it is plagiarism

They are so much more cute when you see the eyes lol

I honestly liked the sequels... Yeah they are different but seeing more from that universe was cool

But now, when I hear "well, I use chatgpt because I can code in R / analyse my data / do literature review again", my answer is systematically: no, you cannot.

I think the loss of technical skills is dangerous for research, because it prevents a sound understanding of feasibility.

Nice, love the story this is based on!