Researchers in Japan have discovered a new species of starfish. The discovery came about thanks to collaborative work among researchers, fishers, and aquarium and museum staff.

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

The mysterious disease causing sea stars to waste away isn’t just a disaster for the aquatic invertebrates. It may end up making climate change worse, too.

A key starfish is now under threat of extinction, the government says The federal government said Wednesday that the sunflower sea star needs protection under the Endangered Species Act ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

An unassuming starfish species found around the world has a shocking amount of DNA hidden inside its cells. The brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata), which has a tiny disk-shaped body and ...

As starfish are keystone predators that help to control populations of other species, such as sea urchins, their loss would lead to a trophic cascade that could cause biodiversity loss amid wider ...

10 Sea Star Species You Can Find on the Ocean Floor Making a short list of popular starfish is challenging because there are so many species to choose from — over 2,000 different species, to be ...

There are roughly 2,000 known species of starfish, and this new one was discovered in Japan by a team from the University of Tokyo, Enoshima Aquarium, Marine Science Museum, Fukushima Prefecture ...

Credit: Wikipedia Commons One of the wildest underwater discoveries of 2024 wasn’t a new species of life, but chemical processes that might rewrite our understanding of the origins of life itself.