For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...
THERE HAS BEEN A SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH AND A LOCAL MARINE BIOLOGY LAB PLAYED A KEY ROLE. THE "SUNFLOWER STAR LAB" IN MOSS LANDING IS REPORTING ADVANCEMENT IN WHAT IS CALLED "SEA STAR CRYPTO ...
For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...
Oregon has lost two-thirds of its kelp forests since 2010. Efforts to remove hundreds of thousands of purple urchins might ...
With California's spectacular kelp forests being decimated by invasive sea urchins, scientists are using sea otters to help eliminate the sea urchins. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz goes below the surface to ...
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s (SBMM) upcoming exhibit Redwoods of the Sea: Life in the Channel Islands Kelp Forests featuring images by naturalist and underwater photographer Ralph A. Clevenger ...
A dead gray whale that washed ashore in Baja California in 2020, during what NOAA called an "unusual mortality event" that affected whales all along their North American migration path. (Carolyn ...
For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...
Riah Evin, a biologist at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, propagates endangered Sunflower Sea Stars on Nov. 20 in San Francisco. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) For the last ...