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

The mystery behind a catastrophic disease that caused the massive die off of billions of sea stars along the West Coast and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Sea star wasting disease — which causes them to lose their arms and disintegrate into goo — killed off 90 per cent of ...

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.

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

Billions of starfish suffered rotting and melting skin years ago, and scientists have tried to figure out the culprit. They ...