Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

“All the starfish ... of real chocolate chips). Oreaster reticulatus (seen here in Negril, Jamaica), is the only Eastern Atlantic member of the family Oreasteridae. Adults' bright orange color ...

The royal starfish (Astropecten articulatus) gets its name from its decadent purple and gold color. The vividly hued species is found along the east coast of North America, primarily in the southeast.

with their bright colors and strange structures, they begin to take on patterns that are more art than animal. So is true of this series of close-up photographs of starfish taken by researcher and ...

a species of starfish commonly found in the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean and the western and central Pacific Ocean; they discovered these sea stars are color-blind and have relatively poor ...