Researchers collected dozens of sea creatures known as brittle stars from Mexico’s Pacific coast between 2011 and 2020, but ...

Degrees of separation Although the long-tentacled brittle star (Amphiura filiformis) differs from the stout sea pansy (Renilla) in both appearance and phylogeny, researchers have now demonstrated that ...

But most echinoderms -- a group of some 7,000 species that includes brittle stars and similarly brainless starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers -- have not been tested. To find out if brittle stars ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists were observing a field of brittle sea stars off Jarvis Island when they saw something they never expected: One of the brittle stars snatched a squid ...

7 “The brittle star can regenerate the arm in just a month, which is very, very fast,” said Parey. In comparison, sea stars take up to a few months to regrow a lost arm, making brittle stars an ...

According to the Environment Agency marine life such as whole invertebrates like brittlestars can be vulnerable to wash ups ...