Since 2013, the disease has killed 90% of sunflower stars worldwide, leading the species to be declared critically endangered. Alyssa-Lois Madden Gehman at the Hakai Institute in Campbell River ...

It was especially hard on sunflower sea stars, she said, killing 90 per cent of their population in just a few years. But a tip from some divers looking for rockfish on B.C.'s central coast set ...

Researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia in this undated photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO ...