Now, researchers at MIT have discovered a way to manipulate these early cellular motions using light, providing a new tool to ...

Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into ...

A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...

More information: Mark G. Meekan et al, Predator removals, trophic cascades and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on coral reefs, Communications Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07716-6 ...

Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Sydney, Maria Byrne, said research on the "hidden army" of tiny starfish could be a crucial missing link. "They're hidden in the rubble ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...