Researchers have identified Vibrio pectenicida as the pathogen responsible for the devastating sea star wasting disease, ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic turned billions of sea stars between Mexico and Alaska into goo. Now we know why ...

A mysterious illness has killed billions of sea stars in the past decade. After a four-year search, scientists have uncovered ...

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their ...

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium ...

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

Between 5 billion and 6 billion sea stars on the West Coast have died, according to some estimates. The loss of so many led ...

An estimated 5 billion sea stars have died due to a sea star-wasting disease in oceans around the world. A team of ...

The mystery behind a catastrophic disease that caused the massive die off of billions of sea stars along the West Coast and ...

By Shreya Dasgupta More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North ...

Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists ...

Scientists have identified bacteria as the culprit behind a mass sea star die-off along North America's Pacific coast, ...