How would a starfish wear trousers? Science has an answer

Gene expression reveals the story behind starfishes’ strange five-armed body plans

• Shamini Bundell

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Starfishes are weirdly shaped animals. Scientists have long puzzled over how a starfish body equates to the more typical animal arrangement of a head on one end and trunk or tail on the other. Humans wear trousers on the bottom of their trunks, so you could extrapolate out from that to suggest solutions to the