Sea stars are vital to ocean ecosystems; however, a pathogen has been killing them in large numbers, rendering some species ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

An estimated 5 billion sea stars have died due to a sea star-wasting disease in oceans around the world. A team of ...

Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists ...

What is the sea star wasting disease? Over a decade, sea stars have been disappearing and researchers finally know why.

They have up to 24 arms and grow to the size of a bicycle tire. Starting in 2013, these creatures and other sea star species along the west coast of North America died in epidemic proportions. The ...

Researchers at the Hakai Institute have identified the culprit as a bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida, known as "V-peck" ...

Scientists identified Vibrio pectenicida as the bacteria behind a deadly disease that killed billions of sea stars along the Pacific Coast since 2013.

Scientists identify Vibrio pectenicida as the bacterium causing sea star wasting disease. Kelley Mack, 'The Walking Dead' and 'Chicago Med' actress, dies at 33 ...