Have you ever gazed at a starfish gliding across the ocean floor and thought, “That’s basically my distant cousin!”? Probably ...

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 ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

The Northern Pacific sea star (Asterias amurensis), also known as the Japanese common starfish, is native to ... enabling it to thrive even under ice-covered seas. Vladivostok experiences harsh ...

Factors cited in the report include an outbreak of the coral-devouring starfish, rising sea temperatures, runoff of red soil from development projects on land, and discharge of insufficiently ...

That will roughly double the six currently under human care ... more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish. Depending on how everything ...