While the cartoon starfish Patrick Star from "SpongeBob Squarepants" is famously stupid, his real-life counterpart in science may in fact be all head. This at least is the conclusion of a landmark ...

Some starfish made of a brittle material fortify themselves with architectural antics. Beneath a starfish’s skin lies a skeleton made of pebbly growths, called ossicles, which mostly consist of the ...

Scientists trying to work out where a starfish’s head is have come to a startling conclusion: it is effectively the whole animal. As well as solving this longstanding mystery, the finding will help us ...

A close-up photo of the common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), a starfish found in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Photo: © Alexander Semenov Invertebrates ...

An optogenetic method for orchestrating the movement of starfish oocytes has been developed. A research team from MIT (MA, USA), the University of Munich (Germany) and the Whitehead Institute for ...