This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

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 and ...

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

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As starfish are keystone predators that help to control populations of other species, such as sea urchins, their loss would lead to a trophic cascade that could cause biodiversity loss amid wider ...

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

Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape ...

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 ...

Keystone species play the same role in many ... derived the term keystone species to describe the starfish in these ... , eds. M. W. Hayward & M. J. Somers (Oxford, UK: Wiley ...

SOUTHAMPTON, UK — Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish ...

Snakes, frogs and starfish are among the millions of animals passing through Heathrow Airport every year. Approximately 19,000 dogs and cats, 400 horses, 2,000 birds, 28 million fish, 50 zoo ...

This process whereby an appendage is automously detached from the rest of the body is known as autotomy. The ability to ‘autotomise’ appendages has evolved in several animal types, with tail autotomy ...