Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known ...

Starfish, or sea stars, are iconic marine animals often found in tide pools, along the shoreline, in seagrass beds and ...

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, researchers found, are ...

It turns out starfish, aka sea stars, don't just have one head sitting at the center of their bodies. These unusual creatures instead have head-like regions in each of their limbs , a paper ...

Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs ...

Starfish (sea stars) belong to a group of animals called echinoderms. Echinoderms and humans are closely related, yet the life cycle and anatomy of sea stars are very different from ours.

The disease isn’t just a disaster for sea stars. The crash of starfish populations is poised to make climate change even worse for other creatures on Earth by upending ecosystems that are home ...

Starfish are some of the strangest creatures of the animal kingdom—so much so that scientists didn’t even know for sure if the animals had heads. A new study from the Stanford University and ...

This is not, however, the case with echinoderms like starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. Instead, these creatures are driven by an unusual five-fold symmetry, also called radial symmetry.