The discovery could help develop new Ozempic-like weight-loss drugs. The post Study finds hormone controlling appetite comes ...

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

By helmutvogler The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, reveal that this ...

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

"The implications of our study go beyond the sunflower sea star." New study reveals hidden dangers threatening mega-starfish ...

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

Scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for ...

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, ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in ...

But most echinoderms -- a group of some 7,000 species that includes brittle stars and similarly brainless starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers -- have not been tested. To find out if brittle stars ...

The weather can change a lot as well, with lots of sea storms and wind throughout autumn and winter. As the tide goes out, it leaves rock pools which become microhabitats for crabs, starfish ...