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Nature inspires innovation. An international team lead by researchers at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, together with ESRF -the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France- scientists, have ...

There are about 2,000 brittle star species in the world, with 57 known in Hawaii. Brittle stars run for cover when exposed. Unlike their plodding starfish cousins, which use suction-cup tube feet to ...

An incredible 155-million-year-old fossil shows a starfish-like creature cloning itself. The brittle star - a relative of starfish - was frozen in time as it regenerated half of its body. A new study ...

Most of us are vaguely familiar with the brittle star -- the slender, five-armed cousin of the starfish. But perhaps you were not aware of how amazingly ubiquitous they are throughout all the oceans ...

We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research reveals. These shy ...

An eyeless starfish-like creature is able to see by using light sensing cells to create a 'pixel like image' of its surroundings, a new study finds. Researchers from the Oxford University Museum of ...