Sam Scott is a senior writer at Stanford. Equipped with a fleet of aquatic vehicles. The fossil record shows sea stars’ ancestors appeared to have torsos, which raises a new question: When in evolutionary time did sea stars lose their swim trunks? Octonauts are a dynamic team of adventure heroes who dive into action whenever there is trouble brewing in the sea. “It’s as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk and is best described as just a head crawling along the seafloor,” lead author Laurent Formery, a postdoc in the lab of Stanford biology professor Christopher Lowe, said in a news release. The researchers found genetic signatures associated with head development in other animals distributed throughout the sea star’s arms and center, while discovering a small amount of genetic patterning for a tail and none for a trunk. Use this fun template with your students to help them create a curious creature and a book report. Sometimes we surprise ourselves with our ability to not hear whats. A template to help students create a curious creature book report. If youre a parent, chances are youve mastered the art of completely blocking out whatever noise your kids are making or listening to. Well, overall, of course, Min replaces Kwazii in the activation, Tunip in the announcement, and Barnacles in the Clapping and joining in with his lines. Far from headless, starfish are mostly head, according to a study from Stanford and UC Berkeley that used genetic and molecular tools to create a 3D atlas of gene expression throughout sea stars’ bodies. Even if you dont pay attention to the show itself, theme songs like Creature Report from The Octonauts can live in your brain forever. Considering that they have no brain, you might conclude they have no head at all.Īu contraire. While most animals have a head-to-tail body plan, the anatomy of sea stars, with their five radiating arms, defies usual classifications. A girl after my own heart.ĭaddy's Favourite bit: Top quality artwork, great facts and figures and over 300 Octonauts-ey stickers to stick all over everything.Naturalists have long struggled to make heads or tails of sea stars, aka starfish. If you're looking for a stocking filler for your Octonauts-loving childfolk, this is an essential purchase.Ĭharlotte's best bit: She seems to really love whales and sharks. Spark your children’s imagination with this fabulous non chronological report writing pack covering Starry-Eyed stan a mythical creature living in the sea. Charlotte has absolutely loved it, and though it's a bit tricky for her to read on her own - it's been great fun for her to explore and stick stickers into. The book is beautifully produced and very reasonably priced. Along with each fact page you'll find out a little bit about how long the creatures live (did you know Blue Whales can live for up to 70 years?), where the creatures live or what oceans they swim in, and also what they like to eat (clue: not one of these creatures eats chocolate ice cream. Throughout the book you'll find tons of fascinating facts on sea creatures such as the Snot Sea Cucumber (!), the Carrier Crab (with his little sea urchin buddy) and the grim but endlessly amusing Blobfish. That brilliant bunch of undersea characters, with their own show based on the fabulous Meowmi books, have become something of a global success story.Īs an offshoot to the normal length episodes, CBeebies started doing very popular little shorts called "Creature Reports" and now you can buy a book that wraps up some of your favourite sub-aquatic denizens and also gives you a ton of Octonauts stickers to use in the book and on your own goodies too. Though we don't watch any children's TV at all any more, we have fond memories of The Octonauts. Published by Simon and Schuster Children's Books
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