Despite what it looks like, researchers found recently that starfish don’t have limbs that are hugging the surface they touch — the characteristic starfish is actually mostly “just a head.” What did ...

When most animals are attacked by predators, the encounter is often fatal. But some animals have evolved an intriguing strategy to survive such attacks – they relinquish a part of their body to the ...

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, researchers found, are ...

Starfish are not cool with humans injecting stuff into them. Two students from Denmark found this out the hard way when they tried to tag starfish by injecting them with microchips, which then ...

Where exactly is the head of a starfish? Zoologists, after being stumped for centuries, may finally have an answer. “It’s as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk, and is best described as ...

If you were to look at this little, funky starfish, there's a chance the well-armed sea creature would look back at you (though it may see a blurry version of you) — with its up to 50 eyes — all ...

You can tell when a starfish is too hot – it loses an arm. The remarkable behaviour is part of a surprising strategy that may allow the animals to survive in warmer waters than previously thought ...

Science Guide & Tutor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge A chance discovery of a beautifully preserved fossil in the desert landscape of Morocco has solved one of the great mysteries of ...

One starfish species doesn't seem to want to grow up. Scientists have discovered a disc-shaped animal in the deep Pacific Ocean whose body plan is stuck in the juvenile phase of the life cycle. "I ...