A mysterious illness is killing starfish up and down the West Coast Scientists have dubbed it %22sea star wasting syndrome%22 The starfish literally melt and turn into goo as they die Something is ...

Scientists have identified a virus that they believe is the mysterious killer that is wiping out starfish along the Pacific coast, but they can’t figure out why it suddenly became so deadly or whether ...

Watch a sea anemone defend itself against a predatory starfish in this video. The sea anemone detects the starfish nearby, ...

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (CBS) -- Two dozen people had to be rescued from a popular fishing charter boat down the shore. It all unfolded Monday in the waters off Townsend Inlet Bridge between Sea Isle City ...

Here’s some shocking news: Since last fall, when I first wrote about Pacific sea stars falling victim to a mysterious disease, turning into goo and dying, the aptly-named “starfish wasting syndrome” ...

This invited post is authored by Chris Mah, a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher. Chris is one of the world’s leading experts on starfish and echinoderms in general. He created ...

The newly minted internet star is a starfish that looks like an Italian dinner dish. The “ravioli” starfish, also dubbed online a “cookie” starfish, was the species most frequently found during a ...

Briggs Holtry, 9-years-old of Surfside Beach, picks up starfish to return to the water on Monday. Thousands of small starfish washed ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, S.C. in 2020. If you ...

Starfish are some of the strangest creatures of the animal kingdom—so much so that scientists didn’t even know for sure if the animals had heads. A new study from the Stanford University and UC ...

Not all heroes wear capes; some wear pajamas, like this woman who recently rescued a starfish from her balcony. Sophie Cunningham was startled when she woke up on the morning of September 8 to ...

If philanthropy is to move from being about the donor to truly being about the change they make, then the first step the sector needs to take, is to address its Starfish Problem. The story of the ...