A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

The Boca Aquarium in the Diamonds at Raymond Lee jewelry store has two 718 gallon reef tanks, shark tanks and over 80 species ...

Sea cucumbers may appear slow and unassuming, but they have developed an incredible and unforgettable defensive strategy.

The discovery by UF/IFAS researchers marks the first documented instance of SSWD in the Atlantic Ocean and the first known ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...

We were trying to learn how certain animals lost their regeneration capacity during evolution and then put back the ...

It's a remarkably simple climate change experiment and the predicted results may surprise. WILL HARVIE reports. How many readers know much about starfish? Colourful, interesting shape, beloved by ...

When a predator approaches, some animals resort to a radical method: abandoning a part of their body. In starfish, this process is known as autotomy, a strategy that remains largely misunderstood. By ...

The ability to ‘autotomise’ appendages has evolved in several animal types, with tail autotomy in some lizard species being a well-known example. Others include autotomy of legs in crabs and autotomy ...

There are roughly 2,000 known species of starfish, and this new one was discovered in Japan by a team from the University of Tokyo, Enoshima Aquarium, Marine Science Museum, Fukushima Prefecture ...

An unassuming starfish species found around the world has a shocking amount of DNA hidden inside its cells. The brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata), which has a tiny disk-shaped body and ...