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Starfish digest prey outside their bodies

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The starfish looks cute in cartoons, but it is actually a horrific, slow-motion nightmare for clams. When they find an oyster, they pry it open just a fraction of an inch, evert their own cardiac stomach out through their mouth, and slip it inside the shell. They literally vomit their organs onto their prey to dissolve it externally before swallowing the soup.

Starfish digest prey outside their bodies
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