A group of sea creatures was spotted off the coast of California and onlookers are calling the moment “special.” On May 27, a ...

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

Stars of the Sea is a new exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Visitors meet sea stars such as the venomous crown-of-thorns and spider-like brittle stars and learn about how the nonprofit ...

Stars of the Sea” will introduce aquarium visitors to more than 20 species of sea stars from around the world.

A mysterious disease that has plagued sea stars for more than a decade may have met its match in the fjords of British Columbia. Sunflower sea stars discovered thriving in the frigid waters ...

Beginning in 2013, sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted.

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 ...

which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But recovery may require more than just cold seawater. The sunflower sea star—which can grow 20 arms and measure a meter across—was once a ...

Alyssa Gehman is seen diving in the Burke Channel along B.C.'s Central Coast and making notes on sea stars there. Around 90% of the sea star population along North America's West Coast was wiped ...

But a tip from some divers looking for rockfish on B.C.'s central coast set off research that could help the recovery of the Pacific coast's sea star population. Gehman said divers with the ...

A new study shows that exposure to pesticides and microplastics could set back the recovery of sunflower sea stars, marine creatures once common in the tide pools along Oregon’s coast but now ...

The sunflower sea star—which can span more than three feet across—is a ravenous, roving apex predator able to devour armored animals like urchins, snails, clams, and crabs. But a mysterious ...