Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it's not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease ...

Researchers said Monday that a bacteria related to cholera was responsible for the deaths of more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific Coast of North America since 2013. The discovery, reported in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

Read full article: TIMELINE: Here’s when the Florida freeze hits your area Sea stars – often known as starfish – typically have five arms and some species sport up to 24 arms. They range in color from ...