Of course, this tiny starfish died. I hate to bring you all a downer, but the oils, salt and acids in human tissue are toxic to baby starfish pretty much in any amount. So, before anyone beach-bound wants a cool picture of their own, please do some research first, and make sure something can be safely handled.

so cute! I would LOVE to see that in real life!

I like the story about a kid who picked up a starfish from the sand and took it back to the sea.
“Made a difference for that one,” he said.
(No reference to Tuesday night’s debate is intended
here.)

Ya know, that’s not their moufs…starfish eat with the hole on their undersides and poo out the hole on top.

cute underload.

Gads, I’ve been on the internet too long. I thought gravyboat said it looked like a star-shaped blogger. Somebody hand me a tissue.

It looks like a star-shaped booger.

STAR BLORP!

must have moar blorp!

always need blorp!

that is pretty cool actually. it’s color combo matches and it’s actually cute in its own way.

Oh… just oh! I can’t imagine they are ever this small! Does it grow up to be a BIG blorp? The cuteness… it simply OOOOOOZES from this little squishy starlet!