Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness ...

A sea star wasting disease​ sparked a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska, devastating more than 20 species and continuing ...

DIVERS clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands.

Why do starfish matter, and why were so many of them dropping dead? Why did it take 12 years to find the cause of the disease ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish eat coral, and their booming population is causing major problems in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Tarasovs/iStock ...

In the name of survival, starfish sever their own body parts to escape predators. They will also eventually regenerate those lost limbs, but how this biological process works has remained a ...

Where have all the starfish gone? I get asked this at least 10 times a week. The easy answer is, “There are a whole lot more ...

In this musical special, the Octonauts must find a way to hold back hungry swarms of coral-eating starfish to save a new ...