A new study identifies the cause of sea star wasting disease, offering hope the animals can come back and perhaps even help ...

If you're going to make a splashy entrance, timing is everything -- and the recent arrival of sunflower sea stars at the ...

A team featuring Canadian scientists has, after years of testing, determined the cause of the devastating sea star wasting ...

The stars were suffering from something known as sea star wasting disease. It’s a sickness that sounds like something out of ...

Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the ...

SSWD emerged unexpectedly in 2013 and quickly spread along the Pacific coast. It destroys the tissue within sea stars, ...

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully cryopreserved sea star larvae and reactivated them – an important milestone that could help re-establish a critically endangered keystone species ...

The finding is critical, the study says, because it "will enable recovery efforts for sea stars and the ecosystems affected ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo. Its name, sea star wasting disease (SSWD), ...

An offshore canyon that’s twice as deep as the Grand Canyon recently turned up 40 potential new-to-science species when ...