When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, ...

Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...

While exploring the ocean floor, she finds a sea star and assumes it can be “opened” like a shell. But instead of opening it, ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests.

WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known ...

Scuba diver felt like "seeing a dinosaur." ...

The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego’s coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to participate in a statewide quest to find sea stars — otherwise known as ...

After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013.

There are so few of the sunflower sea stars remaining, researchers don’t think there are enough for them to find each other on their own to reproduce – so the species is getting a helping hand from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A healthy sunflower sea star is seen on the seafloor in 2014. Sunflower sea stars are important for fish habitat because they eat ...