A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

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Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...

A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has ...

tells PEOPLE. Two days later, Rakers picked Heaven up from the Starfish Animal Rescue in Plainfield, Ill. — and within weeks, she'd formed a close bond with "the teeny little ball of a fluffy ...

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

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A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years.

Scientists discovered that crabs eat young crown-of-thorns starfish, reducing their population before they damage coral reefs ...

Scientists have discovered that bombesin, a hunger-regulating hormone found in humans, dates back over 500 million years and ...

The first documented “virgin birth” by a Burmese python, the world’s longest snake, was recorded in 2012 at the Louisville ...

The team studied the motion of egg cells produced by starfish — an organism that scientists have long used as a classic model for understanding cell growth and development. The researchers ...