Brittle stars, relatives of starfish, have tough exoskeletons and long, slender arms. Most of the 2,000 or so species use the standard, hands-off marine method of reproduction, spewing their eggs ...

Sexual reproduction, on the other hand, requires starfish and brittle stars to come together in huge numbers to spawn. The disadvantage of fissiparity is that this type of reproduction can result ...

A pair of life scientists at the University of Sydney, working with a colleague from Museums Victoria, in Australia, has found that the brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata) has a massive ...

The brooding brittle star (Amphipholis squamata), which has a tiny disk-shaped body and long spindly arms, has a genome several times larger than that seen in other brittle star species ...

Researchers said on Thursday that the red brittle star, called Ophiocoma wendtii, joins a species of sea urchin as the only creatures known to be able to see without having eyes — known as ...

"Some brittle stars and starfish have an unusual way of reproduction: they split in halves and regrow the missing body parts." "While the biology of this process called clonal fragmentation is ...

Sexual reproduction, on the other hand, requires starfish and brittle stars to come together in huge numbers to spawn. The disadvantage of fissiparity is that this type of reproduction can result ...