Our planet is teeming with invertebrates that, to our human eyes, may seem alien in the way they live and reproduce. Starfish are among the oldest living animals on our planet. They appeared in a ...

Starfish that reproduce through cloning avoid aging to a greater extent than those that propagate through sexual reproduction. Starfish that reproduce through cloning avoid ageing to a greater ...

A close examination of a collection of starfish in the Smithsonian revealed even more starfish inside those starfish. By Darren Incorvaia Christopher Mah, a biologist at the Smithsonian, was ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in western Sweden have discovered that starfish which reproduce through cloning age much more slowly than those which reproduce sexually. This reason for ...

The shot was taken in Kagoshima prefecture in Japan by nature photographer Tony Wu. Starfish sexually reproduce by a process called spawning, with many individuals releasing great quantities of ...

Some species of starfish reproduce asexually by tearing apart their bodies, while others reproduce sexually only. This makes them particularly interesting animals to study. Both types of starfish ...

Ongoing research is addressing this question to investigate if there is evidence of an evolutionarily ancient role of kisspeptins as regulators of sexual reproduction in starfish. However ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our planet is teeming with invertebrates that, to our human eyes, may seem alien in the way they live and reproduce. Starfish are among the oldest living animals on our planet. They appeared in a ...