A neuropeptide helps starfish shed their arms to escape predators, providing clues about the mechanisms regulating self-amputation.

Nature showcases diverse nervous systems beyond a single command center. Several animals, including octopuses, leeches, and starfish, have evolved multiple brain-like organs or distributed nerve ...

We come across predatory starfish, Marthasterias, which Charles describes as "the most bizarre group of animals". Starfish, or sea stars, have hundreds of tube feet that all operate hydraulically ...

Starfish–or sea stars –will cut off one or more of their arms and grow back the limbs lost to autotomy over time.

How many arms do starfish have? If you said ‘five,’ you’re wrong. New research in the journal Nature helps unlock a mystery on why sea stars have their star shape. But another mystery remains.

A close examination of a collection of starfish in the Smithsonian revealed even more starfish inside those starfish.

Food traceability software provider Starfish addresses transparency requirements in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) with technology that simplifies supply-chain data without food and ...

Starfish Space has halted efforts to put its Otter Pup spacecraft back on track to demonstrate an on-orbit satellite rendezvous.

Katy Perry has shared another 143 album promo shot on IG wearing a black leather dress with a huge torso cut-out that flashes her starfish nipple pasties.

Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, researchers found, are ...

Starfish reproduce by splitting in two. A new fossil reveals how ancient this ability is.