Starfish move without a brain by using tiny feet that react locally to pressure and weight during crawling across surfaces.

Starfish look so inconspicuous that is difficult to even imagine they can actively move. If it weren't for time-lapse recordings of this specimen, the average ...

Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with hard, ...

Modern evolutionary biology reveals starfish, or sea stars, possess a body plan akin to a head without a trunk. Genetic and developmental studies show they lack trunk-producing signals, with ...

On an extended research visit to a friend’s lab in Tokyo, marine biologists Amy Johnson and Olaf Ellers witnessed something they’d never seen before. The starfish in Tatsuo Motokawa’s lab weren’t ...