Starfish, or sea stars, are brilliant and resilient ocean creatures. These bottom-dwelling echinoderms have a central disc body covered in tough calcium carbonate skin that helps provide support ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

Researchers hope to revive the population of sunflower sea stars in an effort to support kelp forests along the California ...

For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish ...

A piece of fossilised vomit dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered in Denmark. Local fossil hunter ...

The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than 3 feet across — that roams the ocean floor in orange, yellow and purple. These invertebrates can grow as many as 24 arms, and they’re ...

Factors cited in the report include an outbreak of the coral-devouring starfish, rising sea temperatures, runoff of red soil from development projects on land, and discharge of insufficiently ...