Crown-of-thorns starfish and long-spined sea urchins can rapidly devour healthy reefs.
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Sea stars are vital to ocean ecosystems; however, a pathogen has been killing them in large numbers, rendering some species critically endangered.
Starfish reproduce by splitting in two. A new fossil reveals how ancient this ability is.
The waters of the St. Lawrence are running out of breath and bottom-dwelling organisms are already feeling the effects. Here’s how ecosystems are reacting.
In the vast St. Lawrence River, an impressive variety of animals live on the seabed. This group of organisms is called benthos or benthic invertebrates.
The discovery of a unique 510 million-year-old fossil in a Pennsylvania churchyard offers new clues into how early life evolved on Earth.
Thousands of starfish are dying of Welsh beaches but videos may help explain why.
New study sheds light on how the starfish evolved.
Extreme weather led to starfish mass strandings along beaches in Kent and East Yorkshire.
Nightvision, ejectable stomachs and regrowable arms mean starfish are more than meets the eye.
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New research has uncovered a whole new way to combat the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish, by decoding the pheromones that they use to communicate.
We live in a time when our climate is warming more rapidly than ever before. Rising temperature and associated changes in weather are driving shifts in the distributions of species on Earth. Some are thriving…
Starfish along much of the North American Pacific coast are dying in great numbers from a mysterious starfish wasting syndrome. As yet the cause of the syndrome is unidentified, and it’s not clear whether…
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