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Frack that.

Damn i thought it said "Battlestars"
thats good news though.

What about Basestars?

they dont mind being in anerobic aquarium conditions such as pockets of decaying deritus in aquarium sand or at the bottom of mucky harbors so it makes sense.

Oh look more hysteria on parade. No wonder there's so many psychotropic drugs on sale around the world.

As any scuba enthusiast will tell you, beds of Brittlestars are just a joy to drift-dive over...multicoloured, waving two or three arms in the air (well, water, anyway) to capture food...and where there's Brittlestars, other life is always in abundance at the peripheries of the beds.
At least in Southern UK, anyway (Kimmeridge FTW).

Further evidence that we wont destroy the world by global warming, just ourselves. The earth was, and will be here when were gone. All that it comes down to now is whether were smart and fast enough to survive.

So, it's GOOD that we're forcing these creatures to develop bigger shells? Like I want super callouses on my feet. WTF?

Wow, now I can finish the day.

I have dozens of these things in my ***** aquarium... they're impossible to kill. I think you'd use something thats a little more delicate to gauge the effect on the oceans. It's like saying "Oh, every volcano erupted and everything's dead, but hey! Roaches are still alive!"

OK, I am not awake, I thought this said Battlestars.

Brittlestar Galactica?

Dugg because I thought this was about taking the Adama Maneuver to a whole new level.

Maybe they will be able to avoid the Cylons there, they might rush underwater.

Did the submitted not actually read the article?? The summary seems to infer that brittlestars will do better under a more acidic ocean, but if you read the article it states the opposite (even the subtitle, "But the biological cost of maintaining their skeletons may be too high.")

"But although the regenerated arms were apparently more robust in the more acidic water, the muscles inside all of their arms — the regenerated ones and the original ones — contained large empty spaces. Since brittlestars use their arms to collect food and burrow, the researchers speculate that the reduction in muscle will affect survival."

"'They are overcompensating,' says Wood. And in the long term, the muscular and metabolic strains will 'create a deficit they can't maintain', she says."

No, no, no. This is evil. We must continue to assume that man is a destructive force on the planet only leaving rubble and decay.

Digg. Grolar bears. Brittlestar Galactica.

haha glad to see im not the only one who was expecting a bsg article

buried as inaccurate

Oh god, I thought it said Battlestars... Gotta stop drinking Pepsi in the morning.