A mysterious illness has killed billions of sea stars in the past decade. After a four-year search, scientists have uncovered ...

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their ...

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

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

Between 5 billion and 6 billion sea stars on the West Coast have died, according to some estimates. The loss of so many led ...

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium ...

A new study points a finger at a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida, which belongs to the same genus as Vibrio ...

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

By Shreya Dasgupta More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North ...

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

The mystery behind a catastrophic disease that caused the massive die off of billions of sea stars along the West Coast and ...

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