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 ...

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

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

A sea star wasting disease​ sparked a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska, devastating more than 20 species and continuing ...

A study published Monday offers long-awaited clarity on a more than decade-long marine mystery: What has been killing the sunflower sea star? In 2013, something began ravaging sea stars along the West ...

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

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

There’s hope for an iconic ocean predator that has mostly disappeared from California’s coastlines: the sunflower sea star ...

After four years of experiments led by the California Institute of Marine Sciences, biologists finally identified the culprit ...

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

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star.