A square starfish may seem like a contradiction, but such creatures do exist. While it may sound unreal, these strangely shaped starfish are rare but do exist in the ocean. There are a few reasons why ...

Studying the chemo-mechanical waves of starfish oocytes, scientists have used optogenetics to control how a single cell moves during its earliest stage of development. The waves play “a key role in ...

An optogenetic method for orchestrating the movement of starfish oocytes has been developed. A research team from MIT (MA, USA), the University of Munich (Germany) and the Whitehead Institute for ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Square-shaped starfish are usually cushion starfish, whose rounded, inflated bodies can appear angular in rare cases. Unusual ...