The outbreak of sea star wasting disease is considered one of the largest marine epidemics, and it caused massive sea star mortality along the West Coast. Sea star wasting disease is a gruesome killer ...

The sea star wasting disease outbreak is considered one of the largest marine epidemics, causing massive sea star mortality along the West Coast. The disease is a gruesome killer, causing lesions, ...

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

A sea star wasting ... the disease killed 99.2% of the creatures, according to a 2021 study (Hamilton et al). There’s a very small handful of sightings on the North Coast on the citizen ...

due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease. In their absence, purple urchins surged in population and chewed through entire undersea forests of bull kelp, which are the foundation for a ...

Along the coast ... sea star wasting epidemic hit the waters of British Columbia, 96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting ...