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, ...
A mysterious disease has been ravaging sea stars off the West Coast, leading to loss of entire kelp forests. Now, researchers have finally identified the culprit, opening new strategies for combatting ...
A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible. By Alexa Robles-Gil Christopher Harley, a marine biologist at the ...
Before 2013, divers on North America's west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast's iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...
Mongabay: There’s hope for sunflower sea stars, with their killer unmasked and reintroductions pending
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since 2013, sea star wasting disease, worsened by warming oceans, has wiped out 99% of sunflower sea stars from Washington state to Mexico, ...
There’s hope for sunflower sea stars, with their killer unmasked and reintroductions pending
Reviewing a gratuitous DLC is hard because it feels like I'm nitpicking everything. After all, it's free, so what do you have to lose? Time, that is. Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker brings to ...