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This is the story of how Stanley the Starfish 

found that he was a starfish.

2 years ago, in Bikini Bottom, Stanley met Puddles 

the Penguin for the very first time. Stanley woke 

up under seashells that morning, and he was 

walking through the coral field, when he came 

across a penguin catching fish. The penguin turned 

around, and introduced himself as Puddles, and told 

him that he was a penguin. But, Stanley didn’t know 

what to say, so he said that he was Stanley, and 

that he was a penguin also. But Puddles was not so 

sure, but he didn’t bother to ask Stanley, so 

Stanley went along with it. 

Stanley and Puddles became good friends, and after 

catching some fish, Puddles invited Stanley to his house. 

So, when Puddles and Stanley were walking through the 

streets of Bikini Bottom, Stanley saw so many different 

kind of things. He saw a huge red thing with giant arms, 

and small little blue, green, orange things that were 

swimming, and green stuff growing from the ground, and 

many other weird things, but he never saw anything that 

looked like him, and Stanley felt really lost. He didn’t 

know what to do, so when Flounder introduced himself to 

Stanley that he was a fish, Stanley also said that he was 

a fish because he didn’t want the others to think that he 

was weird. 

When Stanley left, Puddles and Flounder decided 

to help Stanley, by helping him figure out what he 

really is. In order to help Stanley, Puddles and 

Flounder first went to visit Stanley to get more 

information about him, so it would be easier for 

them to find his family. When they found Stanley, 

Puddles wrote down every single thing that he saw, 

like how Stanley was red, and that he has 5 arms, 

stuff like that.

Then they went to the library to do some research 

about the different types of things that are in 

Bikini Bottom. They typed in all of Stanley’s stuff 

and they found out that Stanley is a Starfish. 

They also found so much more stuff. Stuff like, 

that Stanley belongs to the Animalia kingdom, and 

that his Phylum is Echinodermata, and his cool 

name was Asterias Forbesii. Then they found out 

at that he has a lot of family, like he’s related to 

Sea Urchin’s, Sand Dollar’s and Sea Cucumber’s.

After finding out all of this cool information about 

Stanley, they decided to call Stanley’s family members. 

After a few days, Stanley’s Aunt and Uncle visited 

Stanley. They told him even more cool stuff about 

Starfishes. They told him about things they have that 

help them survive, or their adaptations, like, how they 

can blend in with coral, when one of their arms get cut 

off, they can still grow them back, and how they have 

very good balance and vision. They also told Stanley 

about their role in their environment, which is that 

they’re second order consumers or that they eat other 

animals like clams and oysters.

The next thing they told him were the places 

where they can live. They told him about how they 

can live in any place in the world, but they like to 

live in rocky places, and on coral reefs. They are 

really common in the bottom of the sea, or in small 

caves.

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