Starfish, or sea stars, are brilliant and resilient ocean creatures. These bottom-dwelling echinoderms have a central disc body covered in tough calcium carbonate skin that helps provide support ...
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 ...
What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan.
"Tens of thousands" of stranded starfish have been washed up on the ... Mr Davies photographed thousands of the stranded sea creatures on Coppet Hall Beach in Pembrokeshire.
One of his study sites, located at Mukkaw Bay, contained a community consistently dominated by the same species of mussels, barnacles, and the starfish ... predators. Sea otters (i) regulate ...
The live coral provides structure and a kind of home to loads of animals ... starfish are incredibly resistant to heat, which allows them to survive even through the most intense sea temperature ...
A piece of fossilised vomit dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered in Denmark. Local fossil hunter ...