The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

The discovery by UF/IFAS researchers marks the first documented instance of SSWD in the Atlantic Ocean and the first known ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million years ago.

The fossils, now described as a new species called Atlascystis acantha, has bilateral symmetry like us, but is an ancient relative of all starfish alive today. The species belonged to a group of ...

It's a remarkably simple climate change experiment and the predicted results may surprise. WILL HARVIE reports. How many readers know much about starfish? Colourful, interesting shape, beloved by ...

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.

Starfish can shed their arms to survive. How do they manage this feat? Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have identified a neurohormone that triggers this phenomenon. This discovery ...

Photograph of a specimen of the common European starfish Asterias rubens with a regenerating arm. Starfish shed arms (autotomy) when attacked by predators and then regenerate a new arm to replace the ...

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 ...