Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are ...

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 ...

In 2013–14, one of the largest marine disease outbreaks on record decimated sea star populations along the West Coast, turning over six billion Sunflower Stars into goo and rendering them functionally ...

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 ...

MOSS LANDING >> Sunflower sea stars are nearly extinct in Monterey Bay. But at the Sunflower Star Lab in Moss Landing, a group of 1-year-olds are growing and thriving. On Valentine’s Day 2024 ...