Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast ...

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

A new study published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences says the cold-water fiords on the central coast may hold a key to sea star survival by serving as a marine ...

The sunflower sea star is seen in the Burke Channel, one of the fiords in B.C.'s Central Coast. The species eats sea urchins, which have been blamed for eating kelp forests along the coast and ...

Another important wolf for these kelp forests, though, is a sea star known as pycnopodia helianthoides, or the “sunflower sea star.” Sunflower sea stars are beautiful, often purple or pink ...

A new study finds that cold-water trenches off B.C.’s central coast could be a marine refuge for critically endangered sunflower sea stars. Lead author of the study, Alyssa Gehman, says a wasting ...

Since its collapse, California's sunflower sea star population hasn't meaningfully bounced back on its own. But in recent years, major strides have been made in breeding the animals in captivity ...

Biological Sciences says the cold-water fiords on the central coast may hold a key to sea star survival by serving as a marine refuge for critically endangered sunflower sea stars. Gehman is a co ...

B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered sunflower sea star, a discovery that could have implications for wider ecosystems ...

A baby sunflower sea star at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) However, she added, if the starfish population could be revived, it could "turn the ...