No it's a beautiful echinoderm! Feather stars (Crinoidea) are one of the prettiest animals in the ocean, coming in a vast array of colors and patterns. These elegant animals are related to starfish ...

Imagine standing on the sprawling plains of North America, watching a massive, shaggy beast graze peacefully. You might be ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

In short clips, mostly on TikTok, immense tangerine-coloured roe are sucked up dramatically on the beach as if they’re ramen ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...