Rather than chilling together under the sea, Mah suspects a different reason for the creatures' closeness: Sea stars like to feed on sponges. "In all likelihood, the reason that starfish is right ...

Christopher Mah, a team member on NOAA’s ship Okeanos Explorer, came across a bright yellow sea sponge and pink starfish next to each other on the ocean floor that reminded him of the ...

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? A marine biologist has spotted a sea sponge and starfish that look like the cartoon characters Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick. Sadly the creatures weren ...

This isn't good, since it subsists exclusively on red sponges and most aquariums cannot provide that. These starfish usually die of starvation within a year of capture. The giant spined star's ...

Everything from conger eels to sea sponges are on display. The oldest inhabitant is a loggerhead turtle, which has lived in the biggest tank since 1953. Other sea creatures include starfish ...

But make no mistake, this rare deep-sea footage captures what scientists are calling a "feeding frenzy," in which several starfish and ... of an unsuspecting sea sponge. And it's just one ...

The tweet also apologized for those who took the tweet as "sexualizing starfish." A similar controversy occurred last year when a Monterey Bay Aquarium tweet came under scrutiny for its use of ...

So it is really no surprise to see what happened when a certain aquarium photo of a thicc starfish went live. Recently, a user hit up Twitter to share a photo they took at the aquarium.

Thanks to the Lakeland Foundation’s Faculty Challenge Grant program, Lakeland Community College recently installed a coral reef aquarium ... urchins, starfish, sponges, shrimp and crabs.