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 ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting disease decimated sea star populations along the west coast. The Sunflower Sea Star is one of the largest sea stars in the world and suffered a loss of over five billion ...

A healthy sunflower sea star is seen on the seafloor in 2014. (Photo by Ed Gullekson/Washington Department of Fish and WIldlife, provided by NOAA Fisheries) One of the world’s largest sea stars is on ...

A team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease Bennett Whitnell/Hakai Institute; Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute The cause of a sea star-wasting disease was ...

Scientists are racing to revive a critically endangered species that has succumbed to a mysterious underwater pandemic up and down the West Coast. The species is the sunflower star, a pizza-sized ...

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 ...

Between 2013 and 2017, 90 percent of the sunflower sea star population was wiped out from a disease called Sea Star Wasting Syndrome. Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 The ...

Earlier this week, the sunflower sea star was listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains a “Red List of Threatened Species”. With the ...

Scientists have discovered that each of the sea star’s tube feet is driven independently using local feedback from the environment. Murat Inan/Getty Images Sea stars move at a crawling pace, sometimes ...

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 ...