Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ...

Sunflower sea stars, the largest of sea stars, were formerly common in tide pools in Oregon. However, this species has suffered from sea star wasting syndrome for over a decade, which has resulted in ...

Pycnopodia helianthoides, commonly known as the sunflower star, is a massive, vibrantly-colored seastar predator that once ...

Along a working California harbor, where gulls wheel over weathered pilings and the old Western Flyer—the ship John Steinbeck once sailed to the Sea of Cortez—sits restored in its berth, researchers ...

In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in the Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia, ...

Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with hard, ...

In 2013, divers began to notice something terrible happening to sea stars in the waters around Washington State. The sea stars were disintegrating and dying. Over 20 species were impacted, and it's ...

After more than a decade of mystery, scientists say they’ve finally identified what wiped out more than 5 billion sea stars along North America’s Pacific coast — one of the largest marine die-offs ...

A small laboratory in Moss Landing that’s aiming to repopulate the ocean’s decimated sunflower sea star population, just got a leg— or rather sixteen legs-up — toward its goal through a new experiment ...

MOSS LANDING — Sunflower sea stars are nearly extinct in Monterey Bay. But at the Sunflower Star Lab in Moss Landing, a group of 1-year-olds are growing and thriving. On Valentine’s Day 2024, the ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known as starfish – ...