MUKILTEO — It’s an iconic summertime image in the Northwest: children playing on the shoreline at low tide, shoveling sand into plastic pails while purple and orange sea stars cling to exposed ...

An ochre sea star found at Estero Bluffs State Park north of Cayucos on Dec. 22, 2022, is one of few remaining in the tidepools after sea star wasting syndrome devastated the population eight ...

From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico. The starfish would develop lesions and then disintegrate, their arms turning into blobs of goo.

From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico. The starfish would develop lesions and then disintegrate, their arms turning into blobs of goo.

An ochre sea star found at Estero Bluffs State Park north of Cayucos on Dec. 22, 2022, is one of few remaining in the tidepools after sea star wasting syndrome devastated the population eight ...

For the past decade, the once-dominant ochre star has been one of the species hit hardest by the sea star wasting disease, which has turned the arms of 20 species to goo.

Feb. 1, 2022 — Healthy-looking ochre sea stars have minimal genetic difference from those displaying symptoms of sea star wasting syndrome, say researchers who examined whether genetic variation ...

FILE - This July 31, 2010 file photo, shows a starfish clings to a rock near Haystack Rock during low tide in Cannon Beach, Ore. Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after ...

image: The leg of this purple ochre sea star in Oregon is disintegrating, as it dies from sea star wasting syndrome. view more . ... The sea stars first developed twisted arms, ...

The researchers added that the ochre sea star was pummeled over a large portion of its range. Along the Oregon coast, for example, the researchers note that populations underwent declines ranging ...

The common names for this starfish are the mottled star, Troschell's true star and false ochre sea star. In Greek, "asterias" means "starred" and "ev" means true or good.

Beginning in 2013, a mysterious disease crippled sea star populations up and down the U.S. west coast. Over a matter of months, many sea star species died in record-breaking numbers, though Pisaster ...