In the name of survival, starfish sever their own body parts to escape predators.They will also eventually regenerate those lost limbs, but how this biological process works has remained a mystery ...

Over time, the starfish can even regenerate the lost limb, returning to their usual life after a brush with death. This is not the only peculiar trait of these animals. “The feeding behavior of ...

The starfish escapes from its predator by shedding an arm, which it can then regenerate thanks to its cellular regeneration abilities. The research, published in Current Biology, ...

Scientists identified a neurohormone in starfish that triggers arm autotomy, shedding light on the mechanism behind this survival strategy. The hormone causes contraction in a muscle at the arm base, ...

Photograph of a specimen of the common European starfish Asterias rubens with a regenerating arm. Starfish shed arms (autotomy) when attacked by predators and then regenerate a new arm to replace ...

REGENERATION; Animals with ... Experiments with starfish kept in aquaria show that the small arms or rays are new ones growing in place of those which were thrown off by the animal.

We were trying to learn how certain animals lost their regeneration capacity during evolution and then put back the ...

The article discusses the remarkable regenerative abilities of animals like axolotls, flatworms, tunicates, starfish, and salamanders. These species can regenerate lost or damaged body parts ...

A Hormone Makes Starfish Lose Limb To Survive Predators. Humans Have It Too The research team at Queen Mary University of London, UK, proposed that when this hormone -- 'ArSK/CCK1' -- is released ...

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse critters on Earth. And so are their superpowers, as marine biologist Drew ...