The starfish is a fascinating creature. Its basic functions, such as eating or moving, are unlike any other animal known to man. Many might assume starfish inhale food like algae through hidden ...

A grisly disease is decimating starfish populations on both North American coasts. From Orange County to Alaska, and along the rocky shores of New England, leggy echinoderms are shedding their ...

The newly minted internet star is a starfish that looks like an Italian dinner dish. The “ravioli” starfish, also dubbed online a “cookie” starfish, was the species most frequently found ...

"Crown-of-thorns starfish, they're actually natural to the Barrier Reef and all through the Indo-Pacific, but what they do (is), they eat coral, which is completely natural, but what happened in ...

In short: Scientists have observed several crab species eating juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) on the Great Barrier Reef. They also found areas with more CoTS had fewer starfish-eating crabs.