A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

The Boca Aquarium in the Diamonds at Raymond Lee jewelry store has two 718 gallon reef tanks, shark tanks and over 80 species ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

The discovery by UF/IFAS researchers marks the first documented instance of SSWD in the Atlantic Ocean and the first known ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...

We were trying to learn how certain animals lost their regeneration capacity during evolution and then put back the ...

It's a remarkably simple climate change experiment and the predicted results may surprise. WILL HARVIE reports. How many readers know much about starfish? Colourful, interesting shape, beloved by ...

When a predator approaches, some animals resort to a radical method: abandoning a part of their body. In starfish, this process is known as autotomy, a strategy that remains largely misunderstood. By ...

There are roughly 2,000 known species of starfish, and this new one was discovered in Japan by a team from the University of Tokyo, Enoshima Aquarium, Marine Science Museum, Fukushima Prefecture ...

An unassuming starfish species found around the world has a shocking amount of DNA hidden inside its cells. The brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata), which has a tiny disk-shaped body and ...

This starfish species has more genes than previously thought, a study says. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / Eric A. Lazo-Wasem Gall L 2019. Invertebrate Zoology Division, Yale Peabody Museum.