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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alyssa Gehman vividly recalls seeing starfish for the first time while on a kayaking trip in British Columbia’s Desolation Sound in Grade 8. “I just remembered (seeing) a lot of the colours ...