Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

Sunflowers, one of the world’s largest sea stars, have declined rapidly because of sea star wasting disease. They’ve lost more than ... “Sunflower sea stars are rapidly declining, and we must act now ...

But even though the earliest traces of starfish stretch all the way back to the Paleozoic era, they're not a sea creature ...

Since 2013, 90% of the Pacific population of these sea stars has been lost to the gruesome and disfiguring sea star wasting disease. The disease outbreak is being driven by climate change, with warmer ...

96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...

Roughly 6 billion sunflower stars have died in their range from Baja California to Alaska since 2013, due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease ... do just that. Before her was one ...