Perched on a nearby seamount was an orange sea creature, its five arms spread wide. The bumpy animal turned out to be a new species. Researchers aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

reaching about 4 inches in length, the study said. Their “relatively long” heads have “short” snouts with striped lips and “oval” ear openings. Their legs and arms are “relatively ...

Among their catch, they found a 20-armed creature with a distinctive body shape ... The Antarctic strawberry feather star has 20 arms branching off its central “strawberry-like” body, the ...

The starfish have a flat, star-shaped body with five elongated triangular arms, according to experts. The creatures are covered with “dense” granules forming a “smooth, almost featureless ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The sea is an absolutely terrifying place, and if you need more evidence of that fact ...

“His dedication to the study of starfish taxonomy has been instrumental in advancing the field and understanding these fascinating creatures.” The new species has “robust” arms and some ...

Researchers discovered a new species of feather stars with 20 "arms." The species is part of the Antarctic feather stars group and is broadly related to starfish. Scientists named their discovery ...

Photo from CSIRO Thousands of feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a reddish sea creature with “massive eyes” used its “long” arms to move through the water. Something approached ...

It has about 20 arms and the creature's colour can range from "purplish" to "dark reddish". The findings of the same were published in the journal Invertebrate Systematics. The researchers went on ...