Scientists have identified a virus that they believe is the mysterious killer that is wiping out starfish along the Pacific coast, but they can’t figure out why it suddenly became so deadly or whether ...

Some starfish stand out more than others. This became apparent when fisherman Lee LeFever caught an ultra-rare sunflower sea star during a recent crab fishing excursion, according to a report from ...

Jayson Smith scours Crystal Cove’s rocky shoreline for sea stars, or starfish – and the search is getting harder every week. In October, there were 191 sea stars at this reef, just south of the ...

WEBVTT WINDY DAYS.DAN: MOST PEOPLE CALL THEMSTARFISH. SCIENTISTS CALL THEMSEA STARS. BUT IN THE LASTCOUPLE OF YEARS, MILLIONS OFTHEM UP AND DOWN THE WEST COASTHAVE BEEN WIPED OUT BY ADISEASE THAT HAS ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Marine scientists are finding a large number of dead starfish along the West Coast stricken with a disease that causes the creatures to lose their arms and disintegrate. The starfish ...

Scientists are struggling to find the trigger for a disease that appears to be ravaging starfish in record numbers along the US West Coast, causing the sea creatures to lose their limbs and turn to ...

Emerging from a recent dive 40 feet below the surface of the Puget Sound, biologist Ben Miner wasn't surprised by what he found: The troubling disease that wiped out millions of starfish up and down ...