It was the starfish arms walking off on their own that alerted biologist Steven Fradkin that something was terribly wrong at Starfish Point at Olympic National Park. Next he noticed white lesions ...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- An underwater disease is killing starfish up and down the West Coast. There are fears this disease could spread even further. It's having an impact on the ocean food ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish are large, spiny, and eat coral reefs and without enough natural predators to control their population, someone had to create one. Would you like a crown-of-thorns starfish ...

Giant, spiky starfish have been eating away at the Great Barrier Reef for decades. Along with climate change, pollution, development and a slew of other issues, these starfish are among the many ...

A mysterious wasting disease seen in starfish around the world may be the result of respiratory distress tied to warming oceans, according to a new study. These environmental changes are likely ...

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. In 2013, starfish — including the morning sun star, the richly hued ochre star and the sunflower star, whose limbs ...

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 ...