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

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

A giant starfish, known as a gray sea star, was spotted recently crawling around a Port Aransas beach and viewer Christine shared a video with our sister station, KHOU 11. "So, bigger in Texas is no ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

Starfish are a keystone species and had kept populations of sea urchins in check, which in turn allowed kelp forests to grow. The sunflower stars are voracious predators, eating most things living on ...

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...

But researchers found that a starfish's five-arm shape helps solve this problem. Inspired by how a starfish flips itself over -- shrinking one of its arms and using the others in a coordinated ...

A biggie is understanding more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish. Depending on how everything shakes out, Eddy surmises stars could ...