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 ...

Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the ...

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 ...

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.

What is the sea star wasting disease? Over a decade, sea stars have been disappearing and researchers finally know why.

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

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 ...

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