Crown-of-thorns starfish can devastate reefs in outbreaks, but new research suggests small populations may help maintain ...

An innovative robot named RangerBot has been developed to address a significant threat to coral reefs. The crown of thorns ...

Four fossils from China put the starfish ancestor on the seabed with feathery feeding arms instead of a burrow and gill slits ...

When studying underwater marine life, it helps if you can use a device that doesn't scare the animals by appearing unnatural to them. MIT scientists have created a robo-starfish with that in mind, ...

Researchers in Japan have discovered a new species of starfish. The discovery came about thanks to collaborative work among researchers, fishers, and aquarium and museum staff. The starfish, which has ...

While the cartoon starfish Patrick Star from "SpongeBob Squarepants" is famously stupid, his real-life counterpart in science may in fact be all head. This at least is the conclusion of a landmark ...

A tiny creature that lived 518 million years ago may have changed the story of how starfish evolved. Its fossils suggest it used tentacles to collect food rather than feeding passively through its ...

Starfish are some of the strangest creatures of the animal kingdom—so much so that scientists didn’t even know for sure if the animals had heads. A new study from the Stanford University and UC ...

Scientists have discovered several 518-million-year-old fossils that reshape understanding of the origins of the animal group containing starfish. The fossils show that these animals ate using ...