A closer look at the sea stars around the Gulf of Maine reveals creatures far stranger and more fascinating than their simple ...

There are so few sunflower sea stars remaining, researchers don't think there are enough for them to find each other on their own to reproduce—so the species is getting a helping hand from humans. The ...

Ocean divers discovered a glimmer of hope offshore from the Bay Area when they spotted some of the largest sea stars in the world, sunflower sea stars, according to a NOAA ...

Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in their pin cushion-like body, they sense trouble. That's the main finding of ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests.

The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego’s coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to participate in a statewide quest to find sea stars — otherwise known as ...

Hope is on the horizon for the critically endangered Sunflower Sea Star thanks to a groundbreaking collaborative effort among accredited aquariums and zoos and research laboratories Birch Aquarium at ...

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. Sea stars – often ...

Along the ocean floor lives an unusual multi-armed creature. No, not the octopus, the starfish: an animal from the echinoderm family known for its spines and bumps and, most importantly for some ...

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While exploring the ocean floor, she finds a sea star and assumes it can be “opened” like a shell. But instead of opening it, he explains how it really works — then takes her underwater to reveal ...