Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

Making a short list of popular starfish is challenging because there are so many species to choose from — over 2,000 different species, to be precise. Here are just a few species that should ...

One of his study sites, located at Mukkaw Bay, contained a community consistently dominated by the same species of mussels, barnacles, and the starfish, Pisaster ochraceus, which preys upon the ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...

Last year was a real mussel year, with up to 1000 times more mussels than usual in some areas along the West Coast.

The banded duckbill was collected from a coarse-sandy bottom where starfish were scuttling along the seafloor, researchers said. The second new species, Pteropsaron flavissimum, was visually very ...

In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports that Acropora species are in the top three ...