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

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

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

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

Starting in 2013, a mysterious sea star wasting disease sparked a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska. The epidemic has ...

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

Researchers at a University of British Columbia lab have discovered a virus 'strongly associated' with mass die-offs of ...

The paper detailing the four-year research project and its findings were published online in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday.

Using initial approaches developed by 19th-century medical pioneers, Dr. Alyssa Gehman and her team pinpointed the infectious disease’s definitive cause ...

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

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