Jonathan Allen has good news and bad news for Australians regarding the crown-of-thorns sea star. The bad news is that the fecund and voracious destroyer of Indo-Pacific coral reefs has a previously ...

One of the wildest wonders of nature is the ability of some animals to reproduce by splitting in half. There is still so much we don’t know about this process. So the discovery of a ...

Starfish that reproduce through cloning avoid ageing to a greater extent than those that propagate through sexual reproduction. This is shown by a new research study in which researchers from the ...

Scientists are one step closer to combating coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish, following a study into the pest's genetics. Scientists are one step closer to combating coral-destroying crown-of ...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, June 25 (UPI) --A life without sex might sound boring, but for starfish, it's the secret to a longer life. A new study finds starfish that reproduce via cloning age less quickly ...

Animals that reproduce asexually by somatic cloning have special mechanisms that delay ageing provide exceptionally good health. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have shown how ...

Reprinted from Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43/3 1992. "Papers from a symposium on Reproduction, Recruitment and Hydrodynamics in the Crown-of-thorns Phenomenon, held on 22-23 ...

Some animals, like Komodo dragons and sharks, were found to reproduce without mating, a process termed parthenogenesis. California... Read More Some animals, like Komodo dragons and sharks, were found ...

A close-up photo of the common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), a starfish found in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Photo: © Alexander Semenov Invertebrates ...

Single parenting takes on new extremes for certain starfish that are hermaphrodites -- male and female at the same time and, in some cases, self-fertilizing. The species faces high risk of extinction, ...