A new study shows that exposure to pesticides and microplastics could set back the recovery of sunflower sea stars, marine creatures once common in the tide pools along Oregon’s coast but now nearly ...

Sunflowers, one of the world’s largest sea stars, have declined rapidly because of sea star wasting disease. They’ve lost more than 90% of their Pacific Ocean population since 2013. Sunflower sea ...

Caption Sea Stars from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest have been hard hit by Sea Star Wasting Disease. A survey by the UC Davis SeaDoc Society shows that in the Salish Sea, the impacts go beyond ...

After sea star wasting disease wiped out more than 90 percent of the ocean's wild sunflower sea star population, divers brave ...

The mysterious disease, called sea star wasting disease, has persisted at low levels in most areas in Monterey Bay and continues to kill sea stars. Sunflower sea stars prey on urchins, helping ...

Since 2013, more than 20 sea star species from Mexico to Alaska have been affected by a sea star wasting disease. The sunflower sea star in particular, is among the worst hit. The outbreak has alarmed ...

Sunflower Star Laboratory contributes to the program out of Moss Landing. Sea star wasting syndrome is a disease that causes the body to break apart. “It pretty much just liquifies them right on ...

A new study shows that exposure to pesticides and microplastics could set back the recovery of sunflower sea stars ... been decimated by a mysterious wasting disease over the past decade.