Fisherman Lee LeFever accidentally caught a critically endangered sunflower sea star in a crab trap near Orcas Island, Washington. The 19-armed orange starfish was released back into the sea ...

Sunflower sea stars, huge starfish that until recently thrived in waters up and down the west coast of North America, are threatened with extinction and should be protected under the Endangered ...

The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than 3 feet across — that roams the ocean floor in orange, yellow and purple. These invertebrates can grow as many as 24 arms, ...

“The sunflower star was the most susceptible of the twenty starfish species affected by a multi-host pathogen and has rapidly gone from being the most common subtidal starfish on the US west ...

The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than 3 feet across — that roams the ocean floor in orange, yellow and purple. These invertebrates can grow as many as 24 arms, ...

Starfish are dying out on the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska – and no-one is quite sure why. The problem has been documented among starfish, or sea stars as they are also known, that live ...

The sunflower star is the starfish equivalent of a Tyrannosaurus—a huge, voracious, unmistakable alpha predator. With a three-foot diameter, up to 26 arms, ...

The sunflower star is not only the fastest sea star in our region, it is also the largest, often reaching 4 feet across, weighing up to 11 pounds and having up to 24 arms. Before 2013, it was as ...

A new study reveals the recent widespread die-off of starfish — linked to climate change, warming oceans and a disease epidemic — imperils the biggest starfish of all, the sunflower star.

Some starfish stand out more than others. This became apparent when fisherman Lee LeFever caught an ultra-rare sunflower sea star during a recent crab fishing excursion, according to a report from ...

The return of kelp forests in northern California will depend in part on the return of sunflower stars, a kind of starfish that were decimated by a disease in 2013 and never returned. Momentum is b… ...