A mysterious and deadly disease is wreaking havoc on sea stars along Florida’s Atlantic coast, according to researchers.

In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in the Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia, ...

For years, it has been one of the biggest mysteries in marine biology: What is killing the starfish? Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a ...

Pop quiz: How many arms do sea stars have? The answer seems obvious: one, two, three, four, five. Five arms. Anyone who has stumbled across one splayed on the seashore knows this. But if that is your ...

Before 2013, divers on North America's west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp ...

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu has assured continued support to Bangladesh in developing ...

In a striking reminder of the hidden costs of vacation keepsakes, two Bahamian sea stars were found in luggage during routine X-ray screening.

It’s practically the end of the season for one of the most popular fisheries in our area. The summer flounder season ...

A critically endangered sunflower sea star. (Courtesy of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums) Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Arctic seals and ...