A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team ...

Deep in the underwater world, animals like starfish use unusual ways to escape predators. In an act called autotomy, starfish shed one or more of their limbs to flee their hunters. The severed, ...

A tiny molecule called bombesin links starfish and humans in appetite control, revealing a surprising evolutionary connection.

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

Smaller animals Unlike larger animals, smaller species like jellyfish, starfish, seahorses and sand dollars have little control over where the ocean takes them. “They’re not very strong ...

The size and length of the wire used can be flexibly changed depending on the size of Starfish or wire you have. Main wire: can use wire with diameter from 0.8 - 1mm ( 20 gauge - 18 gauge ...

Here is a eight animal species who can regenerate their body parts. Salamanders tend to regrow their tails, weeks after dropping the old one and the new appendage is fully functional. But some species ...

Animals with multiple brains have evolved this way to improve survival. Whether it's for controlling many limbs independently ...

While earlier studies had shown that some starfish that live in shallower, brighter water have and use compound eyes, no one had previously looked at animals occupying the sea floor. “What you see in ...

When we move, it's harder for existing wearable devices to accurately track our heart activity. But researchers found that a starfish's five-arm shape helps solve this problem. Inspired by how a ...

Scientists have discovered that bombesin, a hunger-regulating hormone found in humans, dates back over 500 million years and ...

tells PEOPLE. Two days later, Rakers picked Heaven up from the Starfish Animal Rescue in Plainfield, Ill. — and within weeks, she'd formed a close bond with "the teeny little ball of a fluffy ...