Scientists have known for some time that some ... They note more study is required to learn how the starfish actually use both their eyes and bioluminescence, but also point out the difficulty ...

At first glance, starfish don’t seem to have any eyes at all ... a remarkable feat for such simple eyes. Others appear to use their vision to coordinate group movements, following one another ...

They Use Their Feet to Eat Speaking of eating ... you ever noticed a starfish's eyes? While they aren't eyes like ours, starfish have eyespots on the tips of each of their arms.

"It's not at all what scientists have assumed about these ... and what is its role in a starfish forming a pentaradial body plan?" To figure it out, they used a new form of genetic sequencing ...

Despite appearances, however, sea stars actually have more genetically in common with animals such as humans than meets the eye, as Stanford News reported. Mapping a starfish's genetic code ...

Lizards can shed their tails to escape and newts can regrow limbs, eyes ... neurohormones work in starfish and humans are very similar, both organisms have evolved to use them differently.

Reporting in the journal Current Biology, scientists at Queen Mary University of London have discovered a neurohormone that triggers arm autotomy in starfish. Whilst testing the effects of different ...

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators ... However, she added, the study could have provided a little more phylogenetic perspective. “It would be nice ...