It’s time to track down their first meal. Adult sea stars eat shellfish like barnacles and snails. Baby sea stars go after the baby versions. It’s a baby-eat-baby world out here! The tiny ...

They are also able to sense odors, temperature and textures, allowing them to find prey. Sea stars eat a variety of organisms, including mussels, clams, snails, barnacles and even other sea stars.

Sometimes new parents get lucky. They get “easy” babies. Young sunflower sea stars are the fussy kind—but their adoptive ...

96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...

Meanwhile, sea otters may snack on crabs, snails, urchins, clams, mussels and abalone, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Otters have very fast metabolisms and will eat 25% of their body ...