Sunflower stars, like this orange-tinted version, have 20 or more arms. (Courtesy Steve Lonhart) A look inside the Sunflower Star Laboratory. (Courtesy Reuven Bank) Typical coloring of sunflower ...
Interestingly, Burt and colleagues found that sea otters only ate larger urchins, while sunflower stars specialized on medium-sized urchins. Therefore, kelp forests in British Columbia rely on ...
on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. (Jordann Tomasek/Birch Aquarium at Scripps) When a mysterious disease nearly wiped out sunflower stars in 2013, armies of purple sea urchins devoured almost all of ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Responding to a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed today to protect imperiled sunflower sea stars as threatened under the ...