NEWPORT, Ore. — In an old industrial warehouse, Tiffany Rudek leaned into a chest-high tank. Using a laminated card, she gently pried a red-speckled sea star from the enclosure’s bright blue ...

Over the past decade, the sunflower sea star has gone from a mighty predator of the Pacific Ocean floor to nearing extinction. The Nature Conservancy estimates that 5.75 billion sunflower sea ...

The Sunflower Star Laboratory is raising young sunflower sea stars at its facility on the shore of Monterey Bay. The starfish — which can span more than three feet as adults — are housed ...

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

Together, the data created a 3D map to determine where genes were expressed as sea stars developed and grew. The team was able to determine the genes that control the development of the starfish ...

African red knob sea star (starfish) on the sand on a coral reef at low tide. African red knob sea star (starfish) on coral reef at low tide. Photo: TorriPhoto/Getty Images . Advertisement.

A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry ...

Simply put, the sea star, also known as starfish, appears to be mostly just a head. Molecular analysis of its genes suggests its ancestors evolved to lose their trunk. Advertisement.

Starfish–or sea stars–will cut off one or more of their arms and grow back the limbs lost to autotomy over time. ... [Related: The sea star’s whole body is a head.] ...

Starfish, Crown of Thorns, and Sea Star Punctures Overview Starfish, crown of thorns, and sea stars live throughout the subtropics and tropics. They are bottom dwellers, so any contact with a ...