Researchers have identified Vibrio pectenicida as the pathogen responsible for the devastating sea star wasting disease, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists ...

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind ...

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