California's offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check.

Scientists are racing to save sea stars from extinction through breeding. Here's what they're learning about the different ...

A mysterious disease nearly wiped out sunflower stars in 2013. But sunflower stars may once again dot the seabed, thanks to ...

Sunflower sea stars are a type of starfish, endangered from the open waters, and now they’re being grown in a laboratory in ...

The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego’s coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to ...

An estimated 5.75 billion sunflower stars have died due to sea star wasting syndrome with the global decline in population ...

“I’m very hopeful.” Roughly 6 billion sunflower stars have died in their range from Baja California to Alaska since 2013, due ...

AND AN EVEN MORE UNIQUE SETTING A DISEASE CALLED "SEA STAR WASTING SYNDROME" KILLED OFF MOST OF ITS POPULATION FROM THE OPEN WATERS IN WESTERN AMERICA...BACK IN 2013 <APRIL RIDLON // MARINE ...

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 ...