Therefore, the authors say, the fossil must be the result of clonal fragmentation and the first in the fossil record. If they're right, fossils have allowed us to see the moment a new starfish was ...

The starfish-like creature had six arms and could ... which they have named Ophiactis hex. The clonal fragmentation allowed the organism to produce genetically identical offspring by breaking ...

Published in Acta Biomaterialia, their study delivers the first in-depth analysis of how starfish skeletons respond to varying stress conditions, revealing new insights into the evolutionary ...

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 ...

A starfish has five identical arms with a layer of “tube feet” beneath them that can help the marine creature move along the seafloor, causing naturalists to puzzle over whether sea stars have ...

For centuries, scientists have wondered: Where is the head of a starfish? Researchers mapped starfish genes to solve the mystery, and it wasn't what they expected. Turns out, starfish genes ...

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 ...