One of the most intriguing organisms in the ocean is undoubtedly the starfish. Also referred to as sea stars, these organisms ...

When studying underwater marine life, it helps if you can use a device that doesn't scare the animals by appearing unnatural to them. MIT scientists have created a robo-starfish with that in mind, ...

Thousands of starfish have been washed up on an Edinburgh beach. Wild swimmers were at Wardie Bay in Granton when they came ...

For decades, scientists have sought to understand how the present-day starfish came to be. Newly analyzed fossils should help, as they represent a transitional step between the starfish and the family ...

Scientists already knew starfish have superpowers. They can regenerate entire lost limbs or organs; some can even regrow a whole body from one arm. And these animals have just revealed another bizarre ...

When most animals are attacked by predators, the encounter is often fatal. But some animals have evolved an intriguing strategy to survive such attacks – they relinquish a part of their body to the ...