The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the ...

Once a common delight of every beachcomber, sunflower starfish — the large, multi-armed starfish sometimes seen underwater at the near shore — are imperiled by disease and ocean warming along the West ...

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, ...

Starfish are among the most captivating marine creatures, showcasing incredible diversity in form and size. Some species grow ...

An ocean expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has come across something unusual in the waters off the southeastern United States. Researchers aboard NOAA's ...

Hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, some starfish make their own light. And they can look right back at you too, with a teeny eye on the tip of each bendy starfish arm. p pulse Follow Look at ...

The newly minted internet star is a starfish that looks like an Italian dinner dish. The “ravioli” starfish, also dubbed online a “cookie” starfish, was the species most frequently found during a ...

Sunflower sea stars affected by sea star wasting disease begin to disintegrate along the coast of Calvert Island in British Columbia, a region hit hard by the decade-long marine epidemic. Hakai ...

The Texas foster care system is in crisis, and while there is a mountain of work to do from the top down, we must also remember our obligation to protect children extends before they ever enter the ...

These Crown-of-Thorns starfish eat their way across plate coral, leaving behind the dead corals’ white, cuplike skeletons. Not all reefs, of course, are equal. We found nearby Bramble Reef practically ...

The mysterious sea star wasting disease has caused massive declines of the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), a major predator within kelp forests in the Northeast Pacific. The widespread ...

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. In 2013, starfish — including the morning sun star, the richly hued ochre star and the sunflower star, whose limbs ...