Imagine exploring the ocean floor, feeling the cool water swirl around you, and suddenly noticing a starfish gliding across ...

Nature showcases diverse nervous systems beyond a single command center. Several animals, including octopuses, leeches, and ...

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

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 ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...

Looking for a new furry friend? Meet Starfish, a playful two-year-old cat at TriCounty Humane Society. Learn about his sweet ...

Officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are hoping someone knows the owner of this plush otter found ...

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

Scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a starfish-shaped wearable device that can measure heart rate in real-time. The device is inspired by the arm movements of a starfish and ...

Scientists traced the appetite hormone bombesin back 500 million years Starfish use a similar hormone, ArBN, to control their feeding behavior This discovery may lead to new treatments for obesity ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.