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# What the blue spiny anteaters are you blethering about?
How can you mistake a starfish for an echidna?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 12 May 2004, 22:00, archived)
# ahh
it's possums I'm thinking of

starfish are echinoderms
(I helped save b3ta! Hidden Mouse, Sleeping Kitten Gromada? Gromada!, Wed 12 May 2004, 22:00, archived)
# I beg your possum?
OIC

Echinoderm = hedgehog skin

Echidna = hedgehog-like thing

L. echinus, Gk. ekhinos "hedgehog"

Fair enough.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 12 May 2004, 22:01, archived)
# ok ok
spot the (crap) biologist
my field is plants really
(I helped save b3ta! Hidden Mouse, Sleeping Kitten Gromada? Gromada!, Wed 12 May 2004, 22:05, archived)
# No, no, quite alright
I understand now that starfish relate to spiny anteaters via hedgehogs. The world makes a little bit more sense.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 12 May 2004, 22:07, archived)