A small laboratory in Moss Landing that’s aiming to repopulate the ocean’s decimated sunflower sea star population, just got ...

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Sunflower sea stars seem indestructible. Like other members of their species, these pothole-sized creatures can regrow their limbs — and in the case of the sunflower sea star, all 24 of them. They ...

Survey shows sea stars of the Salish Sea hit hard by mysterious wasting disease Sea stars are key predators, keep other animals in check Sea star wasting disease has devastated intertidal populations ...

A healthy sunflower sea star is seen on the seafloor in 2014. (Photo by Ed Gullekson/Washington Department of Fish and WIldlife, provided by NOAA Fisheries) One of the world’s largest sea stars is on ...

Scientists are racing to revive a critically endangered species that has succumbed to a mysterious underwater pandemic up and down the West Coast. The species is the sunflower star, a pizza-sized ...

Sea stars, also known colloquially as starfish, have rebounded on Oregon's coast from a wasting disease that wiped out great numbers. Scientists still aren't sure what caused the disease. Visitors may ...

A team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson ...