SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration ...

For the past year and a half, a killer has been on the loose, taking out millions of starfish up and down the ... said Robert Paine, a retired marine ecologist at the University of Washington ...

Beachgoers in western Washington will get a special viewing opportunity along the shorelines to see starfish, sea slugs, and other marine life. While Tuesday's low tide will be the weakest of the ...

Sunflower sea stars, hit by a “climate-fueled pandemic,” play a key role in keeping marine ecosystems balanced. By Catrin Einhorn Sunflower sea stars, huge starfish that until recently thrived ...

But, according to Australian scientists, it could also encourage the proliferation of crown-of-thorns starfish, which are predators of coral reefs and highly resistant to marine heatwaves.