Once a common delight of every beachcomber, sunflower starfish — the large, multi-armed starfish sometimes seen underwater at the near shore — are imperiled by disease and ocean warming along the West ...

Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with hard, ...

An ocean expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has come across something unusual in the waters off the southeastern United States. Researchers aboard NOAA's ...

Hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, some starfish make their own light. And they can look right back at you too, with a teeny eye on the tip of each bendy starfish arm. p pulse Follow Look at ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

The SuBastian remotely operated vehicle (ROV) revealed astonishing specimens from the South Atlantic, including a starfish that internet users named "Patrick the Starfish." A grinning octopus sketched ...

The Texas foster care system is in crisis, and while there is a mountain of work to do from the top down, we must also remember our obligation to protect children extends before they ever enter the ...

The mysterious sea star wasting disease has caused massive declines of the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), a major predator within kelp forests in the Northeast Pacific. The widespread ...

They are resilient and immunologically cunning in ways we’re continuing to discover. By C. Drew Harvell Dr. Harvell is the author of “Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease.” ...