Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. underside of a common starfish, showing its many pale orange tube feet, on a blue background Starfish (aka sea stars) are master ...

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 ...

Beneath the Arctic Ocean's frozen surface, a predator unknown to most people holds the same ecological power as the polar ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When a crown-of-thorns starfish settles onto a coral reef, it turns its own stomach inside out and gets to work dissolving ...

If you go down to the shore today, you're sure of a big surprise. Many will have witnessed the presence of a starfish or two when visiting the seashore or a public aquarium. Starfish come in an ...

A close-up photo of the common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), a starfish found in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Photo: © Alexander Semenov Invertebrates ...