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

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 ...

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

The Northern Pacific sea star (Asterias amurensis), also known as the Japanese common starfish, is native to ... enabling it to thrive even under ice-covered seas. Vladivostok experiences harsh ...

A giant starfish, known as a gray sea star, was spotted recently crawling around a Port Aransas beach and viewer Christine shared a video with our sister station, KHOU 11. "So, bigger in Texas is ...

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.

That will roughly double the six currently under human care ... more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish. Depending on how everything ...