Sea stars eat a variety of organisms, including mussels, clams, snails, barnacles and even other sea stars. The mouth of a sea star is located in the middle of its underside. Some sea stars have ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The sea star—often called a starfish, though it's no more a fish than it is a sheepdog—ranks with the most ...

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) and the Institute of Oceanology, both ...

Among the new critters are teeny octopuses, fish, clams, yeti crabs, alien-like worms, squat lobsters, mussels, starfish, spindly sea stars, and more. At least 58 species are entirely new to science, ...