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Part 1: Comparative biology and ecology. Phylogeny of the asteroidea / Andrew S. Gale ; The asteroid arm / John M. Lawrence ; Functional biology of asteroid tube feet / Elise Hennebert, Michel Jangoux ...

Starfish are classed as echinoderms, a word which comes from the Ancient Greek for “hedgehog skin.” There are many types of starfish and this one is particularly adapted to living in sandy, muddy ...

Discover the fascinating biology of starfish, their vital ecological role, and the threats they face from human activity.

The Story of How the Starfish Got its Arms Reminds us that Animals have Deep Histories. The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can ...

More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ecosystems Lesley Evans Ogden, Quanta Magazine In the late 1960s, Bob Paine ...

When my grandson Parker was 12 years old, he sent me a one-sentence email with a photo of him on a beach: “Do you know why they are behaving like this?” Turns out not to have been a picture showing ...

“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 ...

Reef fish, such as emperors, tropical snappers and rockcods, help keep numbers of crown-of-thorns starfish in check on the Great Barrier Reef. New research has found the abundance of the coral-eating ...

Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the last decade, and a Bay Area team is at the forefront of an effort to restore ...