Rockstar Games took to Twitter to let us know we can expect around 200 different species of animals, “all of which behave and respond to their environment in a unique way.” This is yet another ...

which makes them vertebrates and in a different class altogether from starfish. The more accurate name for starfish is sea stars, a tribute to the five limbs that many of the species commonly have.

Researchers in Japan have discovered a new species of starfish ... The team also recorded other starfish in locations different to where they had previously been found. Of particular note was ...

So, in the new study, Garm and his colleagues studied 13 different starfish species living in shallow to deep waters off the coast of west, south and southeast Greenland, in the Arctic.

Starfish vision is based on ommatidia, small individual units that make up a compound eye. These eyes are located at the end of each arm and they tend to be very similar between different species.

Starfish have eyes ... "It only has about 200 pixels." But it's enough to enable the blue sea star to recognize large, immovable structures, he said. This species is tightly tied to coral ...

Dr. Mah described the brooding starfish as a new species, Paralophaster ferax. He published the finding, along with a plethora of other natural history observations of Antarctic starfish ...