“There’s been a lot of work over the years on vision in a variety of fish from shallow water to the deep sea, but there hasn’t been much at all done on vision in animals that sit on the bottom,” says ...

Look at a starfish in a tidal pool and you may think: Ah, there’s one of those pretty, multi-armed sea worms that crawl around and don’t do much. But look deeper and your views might change. Hundreds ...

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded an elusive species of sea star feeding in its natural habitat, and the creature looks ... oddly delicious. The goniasterid sea star, or Plinthaster ...

Starfish See Pretty Well in the Deep Ocean. By the Way, Starfish Have Eyes. Look at a starfish in a tidal pool and you may think: Ah, there’s one of those pretty, multi-armed sea worms that crawl ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Surplus mustard gas canisters and unexploded bombs dumped in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii after WWII, have become, scientists say, a potential ...

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 ...