On Hutchinson, the spectacle was the seashells. Every tide left a wrack ... a driftwood forest captured still more shells, along with starfish and crabs and marine egg cases of all kinds.

20 x 25 cm. (7.8 x 9.8 in.), frame: 32 x 37 x 2 cm. 12.6 x 14.5 x 0.7 in.

While the cartoon starfish Patrick Star from "SpongeBob Squarepants" is famously stupid, his real-life counterpart in science may in fact be all head. This at least is the conclusion of a landmark ...