223PM GMT eighteen March 2010
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Waves wash over a little of the thousands of starfish that have been cleared up on the beach at Budleigh Salterton in Devon Photo GETTY IMAGES 
Photo GETTY IMAGES Thousands of passed starfish lonesome a pebble beach over a mile-long stretch.
It is thought they drifted in to shoal waters to feed on mussels and alternative shellfish but were brought ashore.
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The Environment Agency pronounced it appeared to be a healthy feeling and not caused by pollution.
A line of the creatures spread out for some-more than a mile opposite the pebbles at Budleigh Salterton.
One consultant pronounced the routine of facsimile had left the starfish "tired out" and they had been left "susceptible" to tides and the wind.
Similar events occur once or twice a year in the UK, but it is the initial time for Budleigh Salterton.
Dr David Gibson, handling executive of the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, told BBC News "They similar to to parent in areas similar to this, in shoal H2O nearby a pebble beach.
"Unfortunately after the eventuality they are utterly sleepy and receptive to the vagaries of waves and breeze and they have cleared up on the beach."
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