Have you ever gazed at a starfish gliding across the ocean floor and thought, “That’s basically my distant cousin!”? Probably ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic, light-activated cells ...

The team studied the motion of egg cells produced by starfish—an organism that scientists have long used as a classic model for understanding cell growth and development. The researchers focused ...