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

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more ...

Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in ...

“Sunflower stars are really important for kelp forest ecosystems, not only because they eat urchins but also because they scare urchins,” Bank said. “Purple urchins and other species of kelp ...

Sunflower stars landed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s critically endangered list in 2020. Devastation begat devastation, as the ecological dominoes began to fall.

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 ...

Sunflower stars are now functionally extinct in California and intense efforts are under way to raise these creatures for reintroduction to the wild. When giant pink stars spawned at the Aquarium ...

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 ...

Stars of the Sea Experience: Our Living Coastline Aquarium of the Pacific 100 Aquarium Way Long Beach, CA (562) 590-3100 AquariumOfPacific.org Timed tickets or advanced reservations are required ...

In underwater experiments off Alaska, red sea urchins kept their distance from kelp placed near caged sunflower sea stars, ...