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 ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast ...