Sunflower sea stars discovered taking refuge in fjords may offer clues to saving the critically endangered species from sea star wasting disease.

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Findings suggest that temperature and environmental factors play a key role in protecting sea stars from the diseases ...

has found that the highly endangered sunflower star, a type of sea star, has found some degree of refuge in Canadian fjords (spelled fiord in Canada). In their paper, published in the journal ...

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease.

"It's kind of like the … 'you don't know what you have until it's gone' adage." Scientists race to save rare creature after ...

But it disintegrates in a few days when exposed to sea star wasting disease, whose cause is unknown. Since 2013, the disease has killed 90% of sunflower stars worldwide, leading the species to be ...

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating stories from the past year of UC research that illustrate the resilience of life on our ...

Since its collapse, California's sunflower sea star population hasn't meaningfully bounced back on its own. But in recent years, major strides have been made in breeding the animals in captivity ...