Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

Massive, nine-armed sea stars have been flooding the shores of Florida’s Space Coast – the home stretch of Kelly Slater.

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse critters on Earth. And so are their superpowers, as marine biologist Drew ...

But starting in 2013, starfish started dying by the millions along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska. That was the same year that parts of the Pacific Ocean became unusually warm as part of ...

A biggie is understanding more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish. Depending on how everything shakes out, Eddy surmises stars could ...

Starfish, crown of thorns, and sea stars live throughout the subtropics and tropics. They are bottom dwellers, so any contact with a diver is accidental. Injury occurs from the spine and the venom ...

Starfish–or sea stars–will cut off one or more of their arms and grow back the limbs lost to autotomy over time. “The tissues in the region where autotomy occurs are pre-adapted to facilit ...

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 ...

For a long time, scientists have not been able to identify the heads of sea stars, more commonly known as starfish. A sea star looks like it has five identical arms with a layer of tube-like ...

Unlike larger animals, smaller species like jellyfish, starfish, seahorses and sand dollars have little control over where the ocean takes them. “They’re not very strong swimmers, so they’re ...

One of the largest in the world, with arm spans extending more than 4 feet, discovered deep within the Gulf of Mexico. A ...