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Yeah, so this is uh a sea star.
I'm uh hoping Chris Mah is on

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the is on the chat or on the
line here. This is uh not one

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that I recognize. Christopher Mah says, this is an Ampheraster.

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Hey, Rhian. Oh, hey, Chris.
How are you? Good morning. So,

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this is a uh pedestal asteroid.
This is actually kind of

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interesting because some of the
fossils for the animals that

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are like this occur from the
Jurassic and so I'm I'm really

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happy to sort of just see more
of them. I'm I'm grateful for

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you guys to stop and look at
it. Yeah, I think there's

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actually another one coming up
here, Chris as well. I think

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this is a sea star in a feeding
position so it's got the big

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bulge in the middle. It's kinda
hunched over something. Oh,

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neat. Okay. Yeah. So, this
demonstrates one of the things

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that I love about the program
is that we can actually make

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observations of these species
doing what they do in the wild.

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You know, these in situ
observations of feeding and

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other biology, you know, and
and so there are fundamental

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gaps in our knowledge. So, even
something relatively simple

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like feeding like this is food
for the gods for me.