It wasn’t that long ago that Oregon’s sea stars were doomed. In 2014, scientists were working quickly to identify the mysterious wasting disease that had already killed off millions of sea stars along ...

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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, ...

While exploring the ocean floor, she finds a sea star and assumes it can be “opened” like a shell. But instead of opening it, he explains how it really works — then takes her underwater to reveal ...

Scientists are homing in on a mysterious wasting disease that has killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America since 2013. Sea star wasting disease can rapidly wipe out entire ...

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade. They have identified the pathogen behind one of the world’s ...

Sunflower sea stars, a species of giant starfish, are critically endangered. Researchers tinkered with sperm in an aquarium lab to help them reproduce. A Sunflower Sea Star at the Birch ...

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 ...

There are so few of the sunflower sea stars remaining, researchers don’t think there are enough for them to find each other on their own to reproduce – so the species is getting a helping hand from ...

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 ...