Watch a sea anemone defend itself against a predatory starfish in this video. The sea anemone detects the starfish nearby, ...

Briggs Holtry, 9-years-old of Surfside Beach, picks up starfish to return to the water on Monday. Thousands of small starfish washed ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, S.C. in 2020. If you ...

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (CBS) -- Two dozen people had to be rescued from a popular fishing charter boat down the shore. It all unfolded Monday in the waters off Townsend Inlet Bridge between Sea Isle City ...

FRIPP ISLAND, S.C. - Shannon Turbeville was walking the beach on Fripp Island on a Sunday evening when she stumbled upon a not-so-typical sight — more than 1,000 starfish cluttered the sand.

A wasting disease in 2014 took an unprecedented toll on sea stars up and down the West Coast. It nearly wiped out the populations of starfish ecologist Bruce Menge has studied for decades with Oregon ...

The star shape of the starfish (five arms) is intriguing to many marine aficionados. But how it came to be is a question not many can answer. It is due to a gap in the fossil record of echinoderms, ...

Starfish are some of the strangest creatures of the animal kingdom—so much so that scientists didn’t even know for sure if the animals had heads. A new study from the Stanford University and UC ...

Not all heroes wear capes; some wear pajamas, like this woman who recently rescued a starfish from her balcony. Sophie Cunningham was startled when she woke up on the morning of September 8 to ...

Using genetics-based methods, a multinational team of scientists said in a study published this week in the journal Nature that starfish are all head and no torso. Starfish larvae, like those of most ...

For centuries, scientists have wondered: Where is the head of a starfish? Researchers mapped starfish genes to solve the mystery, and it wasn't what they expected. Turns out, starfish genes suggest it ...

A mysterious wasting disease seen in starfish around the world may be the result of respiratory distress tied to warming oceans, according to a new study. These environmental changes are likely ...