By nurturing sunflower sea stars in captivity, researchers aim to one day restore a key predator to the Pacific Ocean.

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

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

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

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

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

But 2013 marked a major, catastrophic shift in two parts. That’s when sea star wasting disease swept up the coast, killing sunflower sea stars to near extinction. Around the same time, a marine heat ...

as part of DNR's annual surveillance efforts to track the prevalence of chronic wasting disease. (Photo provided by Department of Natural Resources) ...

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

Authorities in Mayotte were racing yesterday to stop hunger, disease and lawlessness from ... For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. With many parts of Mayotte still ...

The confirmation of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer at the Flathead County landfill along U.S. Highway 93 north of Kalispell marked the first time CWD has been detected in a ...