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

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible. By Alexa Robles-Gil Christopher Harley, a marine biologist at the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since 2013, sea star wasting disease, worsened by warming oceans, has wiped out 99% of sunflower sea stars from Washington state to Mexico, ...

I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely large enough to hold a sandwich. It’s eating lunch. I am in a garagelike government laboratory on the curled tip of Washington state’s ...