A new initiative to monitor the health of the world’s oceans was unveiled Sunday at the United Nations Ocean Conference in ...

Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

Massive, nine-armed sea stars have been flooding the shores of Florida’s Space Coast – the home stretch of Kelly Slater.

But starting in 2013, starfish started dying by the millions along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska. That was the same year that parts of the Pacific Ocean became unusually warm as part of ...

a status that suggests this crucial ocean species is only steps away from extinction. Over the past decade, a mysterious disease has devastated the starfish’s population. The decline is not only ...

A starfish has five identical arms with a layer ... Sea stars begin as fertilized eggs that hatch and become larvae that float in the ocean, like plankton, for weeks to months before settling ...

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse critters on Earth. And so are their superpowers, as marine biologist Drew ...

However, she added, if the starfish population could be revived ... Releasing lab-raised stars into the ocean is still at least several years away. The infrastructure and know-how for rearing ...

SEVENTY-FOUR volunteers marked Ocean Month in Capiz with a coastal and underwater cleanup in Sitio Culasi, Barangay Lonoy, ...

One of the largest in the world, with arm spans extending more than 4 feet, discovered deep within the Gulf of Mexico. A ...