Starfish embryos can spontaneously form into giant, waterborne crystals with exotic properties. These crystals can last for many hours before gradually dissolving as the embryos develop. Tzer Han Tan ...

Starfish embryos sprout appendages very early on in development, and the embryos can spin through water by moving those appendages. Researchers have now found that when a bunch of starfish embryos are ...

However, its vision is rather poor. It’s colour-blind, and sees the world only in shades of light and dark. Its light-detecting cells work very slowly, so fast-moving objects are invisible to it. And ...

Museum researcher describes several new species from specimens collected decades ago from Antarctica Jack Tamisiea A specimen in the museum’s collection of Diplasterias brandti, an Antarctic sea star ...

The star shape of the starfish (five arms) is intriguing to many marine aficionados. But how it came to be is a question not many can answer. It is due to a gap in the fossil record of echinoderms, ...