How do sea stars monitor and coordinate hundreds of tube feet whilst moving around — and how do they do this without a brain?

Crown-of-thorns starfish are large, spiny, and eat coral reefs and without enough natural predators to control their ...

Modern evolutionary biology reveals starfish, or sea stars, possess a body plan akin to a head without a trunk. Genetic and developmental studies show they lack trunk-producing signals, with ...

At Chandipur Beach, the coastline changes form every day, offering a rare window into a landscape most visitors never expect ...

A key focus of the visit was the RNLI’s vital water safety message: Float to Live. The children were shown how to lie on their backs and ‘float like a starfish’ spreading their arms and legs, relaxing ...

beaches are fragile ecosystems governed by environmental laws, conservation rules, and natural processes that work on a delicate balance. Many items people casually take from beaches play essential ...

In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...

Scientists from UCT’s Department of Biological Sciences have been involved in an international research project which shows a parasitic sea snail that represents an entirely new genus.

From as early as 5.30am, visitors began making the approximately 1km walk across the exposed sandbank, taking the opportunity to observe marine life up close along the way. Visitors who travelled from ...

The highlight of the haul is two years’ worth of preserved marine animals for dissection: about 500 small squid, plus some starfish, sea urchins and sand dollars.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A British man who was left fighting for his life after a bull shark attacked him while on holiday in the Caribbean has spoken ...