Sea star wasting syndrome causes lesions leading to tissue decay and eventual fragmentation, with legs sometimes detaching and crawling off on their own. This diseased ochre star was found at ...

A 15-year period ending in 2020 that included a marine heat wave and a sea star wasting ... reports that a brittle star fossil found in Germany shows evidence of clonal fragmentation (fissiparity ...

are sea ice-dependent carnivores that are greatly affected by sea ice habitat fragmentation. While anthropocentric activities have caused habitat fragmentation in terrestrial environments, climate ...

Volunteers in Campbell River are studying the ongoing problem of sea star wasting disease and what caused its resurgence in recent years. Campbell River Discovery Passage Aquarium manager Ricky ...

That’s what happened in 2013 when a mysterious ailment, known as sea star wasting disease, nearly wiped out populations of sea stars along the West Coast, all the way from Alaska to Baja California.

The mysterious disease that has caused widespread sea star die-offs in Puget Sound is now killing dozens of sea stars off the Oregon Coast. Divers with the Oregon Coast Aquarium made the discovery ...

Where is a sea star's head? Maybe just about everywhere Date: November 1, 2023 Source: Stanford University Summary: A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the ...

The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting ... This process, known as clonal fragmentation, is practiced by almost 50 species of existing brittle stars and ...

FRIDAY HARBOR — Meet the sunflower sea star. Here, in the burbling tanks at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories, these charismatic orange and maroon sea stars are ...