A team featuring Canadian scientists has, after years of testing, determined the cause of the devastating sea star wasting ...

With the sharp decline in sea stars, the sea urchins that usually serve as a food source rapidly expanded in population. In ...

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium ...

Alyssa Gehman, who helped launch the project in 2021, described the disease as "gruesome," causing sea stars to develop ...

Rochelle BakerLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterCanada's National ObserverThe mystery behind a catastrophic disease that caused the massive die off of bil ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida ...

A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a disease that has killed billions of sea stars along ...

Researchers have identified the cause of the wasting disease that has killed billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska ...

Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists finally figured out what's causing it.

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery ...