Patrick Star, the lovably dim-witted starfish of SpongeBob SquarePants fame, was originally going to be a much different character than the one fans met in Stephen Hillenburg's Nickelodeon classic.

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...