CHICAGO — We’ll give the people what they want – more info about starfish! Starfish are the best example among a small group of animals that can grow an entire new body from just a single arm. For a ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Inside the University of Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine, the future of human medicine is slowly crawling across the glass of saltwater tanks.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery about how sea stars (commonly known as starfish) manage to survive predatory attacks by shedding their own limbs. The team has identified a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The tissues in the region where autotomy occurs are pre-adapted to facilitate rapid regeneration,” Maurice R. Elphick, a study co ...

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Photograph of a specimen of the common European starfish Asterias rubens with a regenerating arm. Starfish shed arms (autotomy) when attacked by predators and then regenerate a new arm to replace the ...