A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry -- just ...
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 ...
A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Argentina has captured stunning footage of more than 40 never-before-seen species. One unexpected star of the show is a plump sea creature that has been dubbed ...
Patrick Star of SpongeBob SquarePants fame had already stretched the boundaries of anatomical correctness, yet it turns out that what all of us think about the bodily composition of a sea star is most ...
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 long ...
When we imagine the brain, we tend to picture one command center—such as a control hub within the human skull—managing all body functions. But nature is not always a centralised design. Indeed, ...
Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars — often known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Starting ...
PORT ARANSAS, Texas — Beachgoers spotted something new crawling on another Texas beach recently. Christine shared a video with KHOU 11 of a 'starfish' crawling along the coast in Port Aransas. The ...
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