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

The stars were suffering from something known as sea star wasting disease. It’s a sickness that sounds like something out of ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A new study identifies the cause of sea star wasting disease, offering hope the animals can come back and perhaps even help ...

Scientists identified bacteria causing sea star wasting disease that killed billions along Pacific coast ecosystems.

Today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that ...

Starting in 2013, a wasting disease caused a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska, devastating more than 20 species. The ...

In the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveals the culprit behind sea star wasting disease, a marine epidemic that has ...