The tide has finally turned in one of the ocean’s most puzzling and devastating epidemics. Scientists have finally traced the deadly marine outbreak that wiped out billions of sea stars along the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. five sunflower sea stars in varying shades of purple, orange and yellow cling to a rock Billions of sea stars have wasted away in ...
In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...
In the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveals the culprit behind sea star wasting disease, a marine epidemic that has decimated sea star populations along the west coast of ...
More than 5 billion sea stars have been wiped out along the West Coast by a mysterious disease. For more than a decade, scientists didn’t know why — until now. Researchers at the Hakai Institute have ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea ...
The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego’s coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to participate in a statewide quest to find sea stars — otherwise known as ...
A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida, which turns the marine creatures into goo. When you purchase through ...
A leading suspect has been identified as a likely cause of sea star wasting disease, which has had a major impact on the ecology of the Oregon Coast over the past decade, according to a study ...
After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Recent discoveries could help researchers at the California Academy of Sciences restore the Bay Area coastline. At the heart of it, are a threatened species of sea stars, who ...
Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with hard, ...