Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ochre sea stars, an iconic species once common along the Oregon Coast, are making a recovery after years of decline due to a ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of sea star (also known as starfish). The discovery came about thanks to collaborative work among researchers, fishers, and aquarium and museum staff. The ...

Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it's not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease ...

Major steps are being taken to save an ocean critter critical to the ecosystem: the sunflower sea star. After disease nearly wiped out the population across the west coast about 10 years ago, ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...