Jonathan Allen has good news and bad news for Australians regarding the crown-of-thorns sea star. The bad news is that the fecund and voracious destroyer of Indo-Pacific coral reefs has a previously ...

Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, researchers found, are ...

Reprinted from Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43/3 1992. "Papers from a symposium on Reproduction, Recruitment and Hydrodynamics in the Crown-of-thorns Phenomenon, held on 22-23 ...

Starfish reproduce by splitting in two. A new fossil reveals how ancient this ability is. The waters of the St. Lawrence are running out of breath and bottom-dwelling organisms are already feeling the ...