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The ailment seems to hit starfish the hardest, with smaller numbers of sea urchins and sea cucumbers reported falling to it. No one knows what percentage of the West Coast's starfish are affected ...
For centuries, scientists have had trouble making heads or tails of starfish — specifically, whether these “five-armed” evolutionary oddballs have a head attached to all those limbs. Now ...
No so with starfish and other echinoderms (sand dollars, urchins). RELATED: Instead, starfish have pentaradial bodies with five-sided symmetry branching from a central hub.
Starfish are dying out on the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska – and no-one is quite sure why. The problem has been documented among starfish, or sea stars as they are also known, that live ...
Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape of the starfish (five arms) is intriguing to many marine aficionados.
These creatures are the stars of the show—and the ocean. They’re starfish, everyone’s favorite five-pointed organism. Colorful or plain, skinny or chubby, big or small, the nearly 2,000 ...
Starfish coordinate hundreds of feet to hop about – and they do it without a brain. A new understanding of how they manage this could inspire underwater exploration robots that work on the same ...
The research compared starfish outbreaks in no-take reefs to those with no restrictions. Information was gathered following the initial zoning in 1989 of no-take areas on the reef, when 4.5% of ...
The Starfish Connection and Our Story Connection launched its nonprofit organization on Saturday September 9.
The dire situation faced by the non-mating starfish, Parvulastra parvivipara and Parvulastra vivipara, helps to explain why so many organisms, including humans, have sex.
Up and down the Pacific Coast, starfish are dying by the tens of thousands and no one knows why. Special correspondent Katie Campbell reports from Seattle on how researchers and citizen scientists ...