Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunflower sea stars, the largest of sea stars, were formerly common in tide pools in Oregon. However, this species has suffered ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is pleased to announce the next presentation in its Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new study shows that exposure to pesticides and microplastics could set back the recovery of sunflower sea stars, marine creatures once common in the tide pools along Oregon’s coast but now nearly ...

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 team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson ...

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 ...

Across the last decade, a startling event has happened involving sea stars. From Mexico to Alaska, sea stars have been found with signs of disease, including lesions, twisted limbs, and disintegrating ...