Starfish, or sea stars, are brilliant and resilient ocean creatures. These bottom-dwelling echinoderms have a central disc body covered in tough calcium carbonate skin that helps provide support ...

But even though the earliest traces of starfish stretch all the way back to the Paleozoic era, they're not a sea creature ...

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 ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of ...

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his ...

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 ...

One of the strangest groups of creatures of all is the sea squirts. Their comical title ... The bloody Henry starfish is a deep, sanguine red starfish that everts its stomach to digest its food ...

"Tens of thousands" of stranded starfish have been washed up on the ... Mr Davies photographed thousands of the stranded sea creatures on Coppet Hall Beach in Pembrokeshire.

A variety of different sea creatures can be found all along ... They are the perfect habitat, or home, for lots of different animals. This spiny starfish is the rock pool’s top predator.

Genes associated with the torso are largely absent in a species of starfish ... creatures Margaret Osborne The unprecedented die-off represents roughly 90 percent of the eastern Bering Sea ...