Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sunflower sea star can be found throughout intertidal and subtidal coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean, from Alaska ...

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

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...

“It was like a battleground,” Drew Harvell remembers. “It was really horrible.” She’s reflecting on a time in December 2013, on the coast of Washington state, when she went out at low tide and saw ...

In the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveals the culprit behind sea star wasting disease, a marine epidemic that has decimated sea star populations along the west coast of ...

A sunflower sea star may be about to snack on some sea urchins in California. Brent Durand/Moment via Getty Images Before 2013, divers on North America’s west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The ...

For years, it has been one of the biggest mysteries in marine biology: What is killing the starfish? Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a ...

The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego’s coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to participate in a statewide quest to find sea stars — otherwise known as ...

Ashley Kidd signed onto the Zoom call a few minutes late, giddily explaining that 12 minutes ago there was an unexpected development in a planned spawn of critically endangered starfish. Kidd, ...

Identifying a pathogen responsible for wasting brings hope for P. helianthoides, says Ian Hewson, a marine ecologist at Cornell University. The study may be good news for rearing sunflower sea stars ...

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind the deaths of billions of sea stars over the past decade. In a new study, ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...