Scientists are retracing the journeys of century-old Antarctic expeditions to discover how the Earth has changed.

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

The sea floor is home to all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures. But one in particular has become an online sensation, ...

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that ...

Sea stars may look like they're cuddling, but these underwater gatherings serve surprising survival and reproductive purposes ...

Swartz noted that some Vibrio bacteria, however, were already known to cause disease in echinoderms—the broad group of marine invertebrates that includes sea stars.

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with ...

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help restore rapidly declining seagrass meadows, which are vital for carbon ...