A mysterious disease has been ravaging sea stars off the West Coast, leading to loss of entire kelp forests. Now, researchers ...

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

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.

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

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

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.

They have up to 24 arms and grow to the size of a bicycle tire. Starting in 2013, these creatures and other sea star species along the west coast of North America died in epidemic proportions. The ...

As scientists identify the bacteria killing Pacific sea stars, a UC Santa Cruz marine biologist who began spotting ...

Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a key part of the environment ...

Scientists identify Vibrio pectenicida as the bacterium causing sea star wasting disease. Ozzy Osbourne’s cause of death ...

A mysterious illness has killed billions of sea stars in the past decade. After a four-year search, scientists have uncovered ...

Researchers have unmasked the deadly bacteria responsible for causing sea stars to melt away, killing billions over the past decade population and upending ecological habitats.