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

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their ...

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from ...

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

An estimated 5 billion sea stars have died due to a sea star-wasting disease in oceans around the world. A team of ...

A new study points a finger at a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida, which belongs to the same genus as Vibrio ...

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

In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast ...

Scientists have identified bacteria as the culprit behind a mass sea star die-off along North America's Pacific coast, ...

Scientists identified Vibrio pectenicida as the bacteria behind a deadly disease that killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific Coast since 2013.