JCU Professor of Marine Biology Morgan Pratchett has published new research in Biology demonstrating the best injection ...

Starfish are known for their adorable and symmetrical arms that seem to hug everything they touch. But it turns out that they may not be hugs after all – because starfish, researchers found, are ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish are large, spiny, and eat coral reefs and without enough natural predators to control their ...

New research reveals that one of the largest-ever marine conservation initiatives has helped to prevent more frequent ...

A fishery cooperative and an airport operator are using a method to deal with troublemaking starfish that can keep both the sea and mountains rich and fertile in central Japan.

Where exactly is the head of a starfish? Zoologists, after being stumped for centuries, may finally have an answer. “It’s as if the sea star is completely missing a trunk, and is best described as ...

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

On an extended research visit to a friend’s lab in Tokyo, marine biologists Amy Johnson and Olaf Ellers witnessed something they’d never seen before. The starfish in Tatsuo Motokawa’s lab weren’t ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars — often known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Starting ...

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 ...