Here are just a few species that should satisfy your hunger for unique animal knowledge. This is not a masked vigilante or part of the Dark Knight's arsenal, but it is a cool species of starfish.

Researchers at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering ...

Most people have heard the starfish story. It has circulated since the mid-1980s and usually has no author’s name attached.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Tens of thousands" of stranded starfish have been washed up on the Welsh coast. "I have never seen something like this before," said Giles Davies, an amateur nature photographer. Mr Davies ...