One starfish to rule them all
At 480 million years old, this fossil is the oldest starfish-like creature ever discovered.
Evolution
Mar 5, 2021
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News tagged with starfish
In changing oceans, sea stars may be 'drowning'
For more than seven years, a mysterious wasting disease has nearly killed off sea star populations around the world. Some of these species stand at the brink of extinction.
Ecology
Jan 6, 2021
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More frequent and extreme marine heatwaves likely to threaten starfish
Common starfish cannot survive amplified marine heatwaves projected at the end of the century and experience lasting negative effects from current heatwaves, according to new research being presented on at the British Ecological ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2020
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Crown-of-thorns eat themselves out of house and home
A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their own way home—a behavior previously undocumented—but only if their neighborhood is stocked with their favorite ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2020
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Sea star's ability to clone itself may empower this mystery globetrotter
For decades, biologists have captured tiny sea star larvae in their nets that did not match the adults of any known species. A Smithsonian team recently discovered what these larvae grow up to be and how a special superpower ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 13, 2020
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Crown-of-thorns enhance their growth by switching diets early
Crown-of-thorns starfish are renowned for eating coral and destroying coral reefs—but when juvenile crown-of-thorns first settle in reef environments they start out by eating rock-hard coralline algae. In a new study, Jennifer ...
Ecology
Jul 21, 2020
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Starfish provide missing link in evolution of key brain messenger molecules
Cells in our nervous system, or neurons, communicate with other cells by releasing chemical messengers, which bind to receptor proteins on neighboring cells and change their activity. Neuropeptides are one type of chemical ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2020
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New study predicts coral bleaching and coral-eating starfish invasions months in advance
A new study by the Marine Laboratory at the University of Guam may help researchers predict coral bleaching months earlier than current tools, and, for the first time, may help predict invasion events of coral-eating crown-of-thorns ...
Environment
Jul 9, 2020
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Tackling coral reefs' thorny problem
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have revealed the evolutionary history of the crown-of-thorns starfish—a predator of coral that can devastate coral reefs. Their ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2020
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New compounds from starfish of Kuril basin show efficacy against cancer cells.
Russian scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), G. B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (PIBOC FEB RAS), and A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center for Marine Biology (NSCMB FEB RAS) have ...
Biochemistry
Jun 26, 2020
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