It's never a pleasure to be a buzzkill, especially for something so delightfully silly. But a "starfish" that went viral recently for its so-called rear end does not have an unusually large butt.

"We have a lot of history here, a lot of legacy. It's come full circle now. We're the third best aquarium in North America," ...

A photo of a starfish at the Aquarium of the Pacific went viral after Twitter users compared the picture to SpongeBob Square Pants character Patrick. An expert says the sea creature doesn’t have ...

Unfortunately, the trending starfish does not have a butt, an expert said. According to Nate Jaros, curator of fish and invertebrates at the Aquarium of the Pacific, the booty in question is ...

As funny as the post is, the image doesn't show a sea star butt. Seattle Aquarium spokesperson Tim Kuniholm told Snopes in an email that yes, the image was taken there, but also pointed out that ...

Q. We found a purple starfish on the beach at Ocean Isle. We’d never seen a purple starfish before. Are they common? A. These lovely colored, celestially- shaped animals are fairly common from ...

The Birch Aquarium, housed at the University of California, San Diego, has five sunflower stars, one of the largest populations of sunflower sea stars in captivity in California.

A rare, giant starfish could hold the key to restoring kelp forests on the California coast. ... an aquarium with 40 sunflower sea stars — the largest collection of the animals in the world.

CLEARWATER — They called it Project Starfish. That was the code name for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium's secret plan to build a new $160 million, 200,000-square-foot aquarium in downtown ...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- An underwater disease is killing starfish up and down the West Coast. There are fears this disease could spread even further. It's having an impact on the ocean ...