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Observant second grade students watched as the seastar hunched up her central disc, then spread her long arms out, and something strange came out... dozens of tiny baby seastars. The mother star had been cradling the baby stars in her tentacled embrace since they hatched – a behavior called “brooding”. See one baby star on top of its mother’s lower left arm. Michelle Ridgway visits St. Pribilof School District for Bering Sea Days festivities on St. Paul Island, Alaska.

Photographer: Michelle Ridgway
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