Making a short list of popular starfish is challenging because there are so many species to choose from — over 2,000 different species, to be precise. Here are just a few species that should ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish have been reproducing at high levels, causing trouble for coral reefs surrounding Guam, so the more ...

One of his study sites, located at Mukkaw Bay, contained a community consistently dominated by the same species of mussels, barnacles, and the starfish, Pisaster ochraceus, which preys upon the ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

Many animals like lizards, octopuses, crabs, and starfish can drop their body parts to escape from predators. 3 According to Elphick, autotomy is so common in some species that his team regularly ...

The banded duckbill was collected from a coarse-sandy bottom where starfish were scuttling along the seafloor, researchers said. The second new species, Pteropsaron flavissimum, was visually very ...

When Paine manually removed the starfish from experimental plots while leaving other areas undisturbed as control plots, he found that the number of prey species in the experimental plots dropped ...

He said he has seen seaweed and coral reefs dwindle and other local species disappear at most ... the hunting of crown-of-thorns starfish has helped restore some of the coral reef that had ...