While fishing in the Hudson Valley, New York, on Sunday afternoon, fisherman Eric Osinskie came across a peculiar sight. "It was by far the weirdest thing I have ever caught," Osinskie told Newsweek. ...

Along the ocean floor lives an unusual multi-armed creature. No, not the octopus, the starfish: an animal from the echinoderm family known for its spines and bumps and, most importantly for some ...

I have had many visitors gasp when they see the deepwater red mud stars and pizza stars in my tanks. They exclaim they can’t be from the Gulf of Maine, “All the animals here are dull in color.” Not so ...

A close examination of a collection of starfish in the Smithsonian revealed even more starfish inside those starfish. By Darren Incorvaia Christopher Mah, a biologist at the Smithsonian, was scouring ...

Sea stars are among the world’s most bizarre marine creatures. They have no blood and no brains. They eat by vomiting their stomach out of their mouth and engulfing prey within it. They move around on ...

Scientists have discovered something strange happened to starfish over the course of their evolution, and they ended up as heads scampering around the seafloor. When you purchase through links on our ...

FRIDAY HARBOR — Meet the sunflower sea star. Here, in the burbling tanks at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories, these charismatic orange and maroon sea stars are snacking on ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The humble sea star is an ancient marine creature that possibly goes ...

Scientists trawling the seafloor along northwestern Africa discovered a new animal species, the study said. Photo shows a representative area of Guinea-Bissau. Photo from Guinea-Bissau's Institute of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While they have no backbone, sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia ...