Here is a eight animal species who can regenerate their body parts. Salamanders tend to regrow their tails, weeks after dropping the old one and the new appendage is fully functional. But some species ...

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 ...

But the ocean isn't as colourful now after a wasting disease tore through all varieties of sea stars along the North American ...

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...

A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

The size and length of the wire used can be flexibly changed depending on the size of Starfish or wire you have. Main wire: can use wire with diameter from 0.8 - 1mm ( 20 gauge - 18 gauge ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

Scientists discovered that crabs eat young crown-of-thorns starfish, reducing their population before they damage coral reefs ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

They are the perfect habitat, or home, for lots of different animals. This spiny starfish is the rock pool’s top predator. This means that it sits at the top of the food chain. No other animals ...