The starfish, often referred to as the sea star, commands attention in the vibrant underwater world with its unique shape and ...

Starfish, or sea stars, are brilliant and resilient ocean creatures. These bottom-dwelling echinoderms have a central disc body covered in tough calcium carbonate skin that helps provide support ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...

A variety of different sea creatures can be found all along ... They are the perfect habitat, or home, for lots of different animals. This spiny starfish is the rock pool’s top predator.

"Tens of thousands" of stranded starfish have been washed up on the ... Mr Davies photographed thousands of the stranded sea creatures on Coppet Hall Beach in Pembrokeshire.

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

One of the strangest groups of creatures of all is the sea squirts. Their comical title ... The bloody Henry starfish is a deep, sanguine red starfish that everts its stomach to digest its food ...

Genes associated with the torso are largely absent in a species of starfish ... creatures Margaret Osborne The unprecedented die-off represents roughly 90 percent of the eastern Bering Sea ...

They would be mistaken on two accounts. Despite their harmless appearance, starfish are carnivorous and hunt animals like molluscs. Unlike sea urchins, which chew food with teeth on their ...