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

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

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

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

Scientists are racing to save sea stars from extinction through breeding. Here's what they're learning about the different species—from arm-wrestling bat stars to bloodless blood stars.

Caption Sea Stars from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest have been hard hit by Sea Star Wasting Disease. A survey by the UC Davis SeaDoc Society shows that in the Salish Sea, the impacts go beyond ...

Since 2013, more than 20 sea star species from Mexico to Alaska have been affected by a sea star wasting disease. The sunflower sea star in particular, is among the worst hit. The outbreak has alarmed ...

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

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

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96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...

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 ...