Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the name of survival, starfish sever their own body parts to ...

Reprinted from Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43/3 1992. "Papers from a symposium on Reproduction, Recruitment and Hydrodynamics in the Crown-of-thorns Phenomenon, held on 22-23 ...

For many creatures, having a limb caught in a predator’s mouth is usually a death sentence. Not starfish, though—they can detach the limb and leave the predator something to chew on while they crawl ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...

The five-armed figure of many starfish has to be one of the most iconic underwater curiosities in the world. How did these marine invertebrates attain such a bizarre body? It turns out that they weren ...

Emily Peterman and her collaborators are discovering how starfish skeletons, sea urchin spines, and eggshells form, hoping to reveal new methods for constructing materials that are both strong and ...

Starfish embryos can organise themselves into large, oscillating crystals at the surface of water. These structures, which had never been seen before, may form because of the embryos’ swimming style ...

Imagine you are drawing a starfish—where would you draw its face? Starfish have eyes at the tip of each of their arms, but the location of their heads has puzzled scientists for decades.