For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

The "baby boom" of ochre sea stars that followed a population crash a decade ago is enabling the species to recover on the Oregon Coast, according to new research by scientists at Oregon State ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Sea Center recently added two new residents hoping to battle back from the ...

Recent discoveries could help researchers at the California Academy of Sciences restore the Bay Area coastline. At the heart of it, are a threatened species of sea stars, who could be the new sheriff ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests.

An “underwater zombie apocalypse.” That’s how wildlife veterinarian Joe Gaydos of the University of California UC, Davis, describes “sea star wasting disease” (SSWD), a blight that has decimated more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A healthy sunflower sea star is seen on the seafloor in 2014. Sunflower sea stars are important for fish habitat because they eat ...

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The “baby boom” of ochre sea stars that followed a population crash a decade ago is enabling the species to recover on the Oregon Coast, according to new research by scientists at ...