Starfish, or sea stars, have long captivated scientists and divers with their unique appearance and mysterious nature. Recent ...

The earliest traces of life to be found in the Barton area of the southern end of the Hampshire basin are in the form of ...

Have you ever gazed at a starfish gliding across the ocean floor and thought, “That’s basically my distant cousin!”? Probably ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

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 ...

For more than 30 years, Mooi has been steadily filling in and building onto the phylogenetic tree of echinoderms, the enigmatic and rarely studied group of invertebrates that includes sea urchins, ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

When spiders get sucked into a vacuum cleaner, can they eventually crawl back out, or do they suffocate in all that dust? Pamela Wyatt, San Diego Almost every spider sucked into a home vacuum ...

It is home to the only seagrass bed in the Straits of Malacca and a study has revealed that a total 429 species of seagrass, trees, vegetation, fish, birds, marine mammals, turtles, molluscs, ...

Sea cucumbers in the sand. Image by nattapol via Depositphotos. Sea cucumbers are fascinating echinoderms that boast unique defensive mechanisms, including eviscerating their internal organs to deter ...

Volusia County’s Solid Waste Division will collect materials such as old paint, solvents, automobile and household batteries, pool chemicals, pesticides, motor oil, gasoline, other household chemicals ...