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Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

A quiet yet powerful rescue mission is underway in the cold waters off the Pacific coast. The nonprofit Sunflower Star Laboratory is leading the charge to revive the critically endangered sunflower ...

University of Washington scientists continue to take steps toward replenishing the sea star population, a species that was wiped out along the West Coast more than a decade ago. The scientists spent ...

In the Pacific Ocean's kelp forests, the seaweed can be taller than trees. This vital ecosystem has been disappearing largely because of the loss of sea stars. They've been ravaged by a mysterious ...

The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego’s coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to participate in a statewide quest to find sea stars — otherwise known as ...

After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013.

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind the deaths of billions of sea stars over the past decade. In a new study, ...

More than a decade after a mysterious sickness began killing billions of sea stars off the Pacific Coast, scientists say they've identified the bacteria that causes the deadly disease. A team of at ...

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ...