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

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 ...

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 ...

Some starfish stand out more than others. This became apparent when fisherman Lee LeFever caught an ultra-rare sunflower sea star during a recent crab fishing excursion, according to a report from ...

The mystery of how starfish evolved their distinctive five-pointed body may be solved, thanks to new research from the University of Southhampton. Scientists have long wondered where exactly the “head ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that sea urchins, a fascinating sea creature, have a surprisingly complex nervous ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...

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 ...