The photo of the starfish, captured on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's recent expedition to the deep Atlantic Ocean, propelled the tasty looking echinoderm to fame. But until now ...

Despite what it looks like, researchers found recently that starfish don’t have limbs that are hugging the surface they touch — the characteristic starfish is actually mostly “just a head.” What did ...

If this starfish is making your mouth water, you're not alone. When a photo of Plinthaster dentatus went viral on Twitter last week, pasta-lovers did a double take — the sea star looked just like a ...

Modern evolutionary biology reveals starfish, or sea stars, possess a body plan akin to a head without a trunk. Genetic and ...

While the cartoon starfish Patrick Star from "SpongeBob Squarepants" is famously stupid, his real-life counterpart in science may in fact be all head. This at least is the conclusion of a landmark ...

For decades, scientists have sought to understand how the present-day starfish came to be. Newly analyzed fossils should help, as they represent a transitional step between the starfish and the family ...

A hormone that is released in our brain when we fall in love also makes starfish turn their stomach inside out to feed, according to a new study. A hormone that is released in our brain when we fall ...

The starfish, which ejects its cardiac stomach to digest prey, is famous for spitting its stomach out of its mouth. Its stomach is unique, featuring two parts-a large, eversible cardiac stomach and a ...