Starfish, which are more scientifically known as sea stars, don’t have any visible body parts that look like eyes. … While it may not look like starfish have eyes, they do, although they’re not like our eyes. A starfish has eyespots that cannot see much in the way of details but can detect light and dark.

Do sea stars have simple eyes?

Starfish have eyes—one on the end of each of their arms—but what they do with them was anyone’s guess. Starfish have historically been thought of as simple animals. Since their eyes are also relatively simple and because they lack a brain, it was difficult to figure out how or even if they could see.

Are sea stars blind?

While sea stars don’t exactly see like we do, they definitely aren’t blind. Instead of eyeballs, sea stars have tiny eye ‘spots’ embedded beneath the skin of each arm. While they’re certainly small, these spots are actually visible if you look very closely at the end of each limb.