Making a short list of popular starfish is challenging because there are so many species to choose from — over 2,000 different species, to be precise. Here are just a few species that should ...

In his seminal paper that followed this work, Paine (1969) derived the term keystone species to describe the starfish in these ... original Endangered Species List. The subsequent Endangered ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...