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

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

A light-activated enzyme morphed round starfish egg cells into different shapes. This technology could one day be useful for ...

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

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 no ...

But University of Missouri researchers found that a starfish’s five-arm shape helps solve this problem. Inspired by how a starfish flips itself over — shrinking one of its arms and using the others in ...