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Fast fact #14

#14: Starfish are our distant cousins. Sea urchins and other echinoderms are the closest relatives of the vertebrates.

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Bibliography

Source: Sodergren et al. Science 2006;314:941-52.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5801/941
Originally published in The Big Picture Little Book of Fast Facts
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