The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few days when exposed to sea star wasting disease, whose cause is unknown. Since ...

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

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

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 ...

“They do eventually come to an end,” he says. Usually, that’s when really extreme changes occur. And when he looks at the moments in the past when the climate changed dramatically, and he looks at ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was especially hard on sunflower sea stars, she said, killing 90 per cent of their population in just a few years. But a tip from some divers looking for rockfish on B.C.'s central coast set off ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...