Researchers mapped starfish genes to solve the mystery, and it wasn't what they expected. Turns out, starfish genes suggest it contains multiple heads, one at the center and in each limb. In a game of ...

Animals come in an astounding diversity of forms. Some differences are so profound that it is difficult to imagine how they arose. What sequence of events enabled the shared ancestor of a jellyfish ...

John Carpenter’s The Thing famously features an alien menace capable of mimicking any creature (human or otherwise) that it has ever encountered. The creature uses that ability to hide in plain sight ...

The five-armed figure of many starfish has to be one of the most iconic underwater curiosities in the world. How did these marine invertebrates attain such a bizarre body? It turns out that they weren ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...

A journey back in time to trace the ancestors of starfish. For 25 years, Andrew Smith, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, has been troubled by a question of symmetry. It began ...

When it comes to starfish, scientists have finally answered Basement Jaxx’s most famous question – their head is all over their body, to the point where their body is essentially, well, a head. The ...

The film explores the fascinating world of echinoderms, focusing on sea stars and their relatives, such as sea urchins and sand dollars. It describes their unique body structures, including radial ...

The Story of How the Starfish Got its Arms Reminds us that Animals have Deep Histories. The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can ...

For centuries, scientists have wondered: Where is the head of a starfish? Researchers mapped starfish genes to solve the mystery, and it wasn't what they expected. Turns out, starfish genes suggest it ...