While starfish are widely recognized—especially thanks to pop-culture icons like Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants—their remarkable internal structure often goes unnoticed. Sharing an ...

These individual populations are the keystone of the community's structure, and the integrity ... in the 1960s by the dominance of top-predator starfish in intertidal ecosystems.

These decoys, particularly "Starfish" sites, simulated bombed urban and industrial areas to attract Luftwaffe attacks away from high-priority targets like airfields and manufacturing hubs.

The live coral provides structure and a kind of home to loads of animals and loads of fish and these starfish are very, very good at stripping away all that coral very, very quickly, which then ...