The "baby boom" of ochre sea stars that followed a population crash a decade ago is enabling the species to recover on the Oregon Coast, according to new research by scientists at Oregon State ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars — often known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Starting ...

Scientists estimate that more than 5 billion sunflower sea stars, once a mighty predator, have died in the Pacific Ocean because of warming waters. By Remy Tumin Over the past decade, the sunflower ...

Three sunflower sea stars, considered functionally extinct in California, spawn at a San Diego aquarium. Christoffer Engstrom Unplash Three critically endangered sunflower sea stars have spawned as ...