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

Starfish, or sea stars, have long captivated scientists and divers with their unique appearance and mysterious nature. Recent ...

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 ...

A giant starfish, known as a gray sea star, was spotted recently crawling around a Port Aransas beach and viewer Christine shared a video with our sister station, KHOU 11. "So, bigger in Texas is ...

The report says researchers found in their juvenile form, the crown-of-thorns starfish are incredibly resistant to heat, which allows them to survive even through the most intense sea temperature ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

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 ...

By analysing the genomes of invertebrate animals, they discovered genes encoding bombesin-like neurohormones in the common starfish (Asterias rubens) and other echinoderms, such as sea urchins and ...

Alyssa Gehman vividly recalls seeing starfish for the first time while on a kayaking trip in British Columbia’s Desolation Sound in Grade 8.  “I just remembered (seeing) a lot of the ...

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 ...