Sea star wasting disease has infected more than 20 different species, but it is particularly devastating for sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides). These giant sea stars, which can grow ...

Scientists identify a new sea creature named Mobula yarae. It's an enormous new species of Atlantic manta ray measuring up to ...

Before the outbreak, she says, they’d known that sunflower stars — giant sea stars that can be the size of dinner plates, or even bike tires — were skillful hunters and voracious eaters. They even ...

The stars were suffering from something known as sea star wasting disease. It’s a sickness that sounds like something out of a horror movie: Stars can develop lesions in their bodies.

Sea stars started dying off, including the giant three-foot sea star, the sunflower sea star. GEHMAN: They can have up to 24 arms.

Sea stars started dying off, including the giant three-foot sea star, the sunflower sea star. GEHMAN: They can have up to 24 arms.

The giant sea star lives up to its name as a giant with a whopping 24-inch diameter. Giant sea stars are found on the western coast of North America, usually on rocks and near the low tide mark.

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 as ...

A giant sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) walks across the reef underwater in Point Dume State Beach, California.

A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida, which turns the marine creatures into goo.