A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commonly called starfish) body plans, and how sea stars start life with bilateral body symmetry -- just ...

The bodies of starfish and other echinoderms are more like heads, according to new research involving the University of Southampton. The research, published today [1 November] in Nature, helps to ...

Starfish are some of the strangest creatures of the animal kingdom—so much so that scientists didn’t even know for sure if the animals had heads. A new study from the Stanford University and UC ...

(CNN) — The heads of most animals are easily identifiable, but scientists haven’t been able to say the same for sea stars until now. (CNN) — The heads of most animals are easily identifiable, but ...

If you put a hat on a starfish, where would you put it? On the center of the starfish? Or on the point of an arm and, if so, which one? The question is silly, but it gets at serious questions in the ...