Briggs Holtry, 9-years-old of Surfside Beach, picks up starfish to return to the water on Monday. Thousands of small starfish washed ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, S.C. in 2020. If you ...

Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is exactly what’s occurring on Florida’s Space Coast, where the shore is ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – In an old industrial warehouse, Tiffany Rudek leaned into a chest-high tank. Using a laminated card, she gently pried a red-speckled sea star from the enclosure’s bright blue walls.

Look at a starfish in a tidal pool and you may think: Ah, there’s one of those pretty, multi-armed sea worms that crawl around and don’t do much. But look deeper and your views might change. Hundreds ...

Hundreds of dead starfish have been found washed up on beaches. The animals were discovered by dog walkers on Margate Main Sands and at St Mildred's Bay Westgate in Kent, on Boxing Day. The ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...

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 ...

Museum researcher describes several new species from specimens collected decades ago from Antarctica Jack Tamisiea A specimen in the museum’s collection of Diplasterias brandti, an Antarctic sea star ...

Starfish are beautiful organisms, but if you think about it a little deeper, they’re also really strange. As echinoderms, they’re relatives of sea cucumbers and urchins, meaning at one point they ...