An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the ...

No it's a beautiful echinoderm! Feather stars (Crinoidea) are one of the prettiest animals in the ocean, coming in a vast array of colors and patterns. These elegant animals are related to starfish ...

For brittle stars, a class of echinoderms that dominate the megabenthos in various marine systems due to their often large populations, including those on Arctic soft bottom shelves, growth and ...

Scientists traced the appetite hormone bombesin back 500 million years Starfish use a similar hormone, ArBN, to control their feeding behavior This discovery may lead to new treatments for obesity ...