Saturday morning came and I was moving kind of slow, but moving was the key ingredient here. I had a few chores to do after rising from bed, and collected some trash and headed for the Dargan landfill ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Large quantities of starfish have been seen scattered along Hilton Head Island beaches recently. Although it may look alarming, this is actually a natural event that's ...

You know the story. On a shoreline full of beached starfish, a young boy heaves a few back into the ocean. Someone comes along and asks why he bothers. Too many starfish, for such a weak effort to ...

Advances in genetics are allowing researchers to probe the complexity of life on Earth Pop quiz: How many arms do sea stars have? The answer seems obvious: one, two, three, four, five. Five arms.

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

A single crown-of-thorns starfish is impressive. This unusually large, sinister-looking sea star grows to 3 feet in diameter with as many as 19 spiny arms. It’s hard to miss on the reef, where it ...

MILFORD Jim Barber told an adage about an old lady who used to pick up starfish along the beach every night and throw them back into the ocean. Witnessing this nightly occurrence, a young observer ...

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Tourists leaving red starfish to die on the sands after taking a few pictures on Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island, has triggered public outrage. The expressions of outrage followed after a woman ...