Starfish, or sea stars, are radially symmetrical, star-shaped organisms of the phylum Echinodermata and the class Asteroidea. Aside from their distinguished shape, starfish are most recognized for ...

Coral are not completely defenceless against attacking juvenile crown of thorns starfish and can fight back to inflict at times lethal damage, new research has found. This occurs during a period of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The tissues in the region where autotomy occurs are pre-adapted to facilitate rapid regeneration,” Maurice R. Elphick, a study co ...

Photograph of a specimen of the common European starfish Asterias rubens with a regenerating arm. Starfish shed arms (autotomy) when attacked by predators and then regenerate a new arm to replace the ...

CHICAGO — We’ll give the people what they want – more info about starfish! Starfish are the best example among a small group of animals that can grow an entire new body from just a single arm. For a ...