Explore the world’s 10 largest starfish species, admired for their impressive size, vivid colours, and vital roles in maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems.

Hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, some starfish make their own light. And they can look right back at you too, with a teeny eye on the tip of each bendy starfish arm. p pulse Follow Look at ...

A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry -- just ...

Pop quiz: How many arms do sea stars have? The answer seems obvious: one, two, three, four, five. Five arms. Anyone who has stumbled across one splayed on the seashore knows this. But if that is your ...

Starfish had been existing since the past 500 million years, but in the last decade, a disease outbreak almost drove them to ...

Museum researcher describes several new species from specimens collected decades ago from Antarctica Jack Tamisiea A specimen in the museum’s collection of Diplasterias brandti, an Antarctic sea star ...

SOUTHAMPTON, UK — 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, ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Thousands of starfish have washed-up along several Dutch beaches following stormy weather over the weekend, according to ...

Marine scientists are scrambling to determine the extent and cause of a disease that is killing starfish along the West Coast, including Sonoma County. The affliction, called sea star wasting disease, ...

Briggs Holtry, 9-years-old of Surfside Beach, picks up starfish to return to the water on Monday. Thousands of small starfish washed ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, S.C. in 2020. If you ...

Fife Coast and Countryside Trust said it would allow the tides to reclaim the dead starfish while monitoring the situation.