Starfish are beautiful organisms, but if you think about it a little deeper, they’re also really strange. As echinoderms, ...

Have you ever gazed at a starfish gliding across the ocean floor and thought, “That’s basically my distant cousin!”? Probably not. Yet, as wild as it sounds, you might share more with a starfish than ...

Scientists have finally figured out how to make heads or tails of starfish. Skip to main content. Scientific American. November 3, ... resulting in a “weird” body that seems to diverge from ...

Starfish, also known as sea stars, belong to a group of animals called echinoderms, which includes sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Their strange body plans have long puzzled biologists.

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 ...

The heads of most animals are easily identifiable, but scientists haven’t been able to say the same for sea stars — until now.

Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, researchers found, are ...