Sunflower sea stars discovered thriving in the frigid waters suggest that cooler temperatures provide protection from sea star wasting disease, or SSWD. The finding, reported in the April ...

Many Canadians have fond childhood memories of nature – seeing an owl at dusk, tidepooling for starfish, gazing out to sea ...

Researchers have discovered that sunflower sea stars, which are critically endangered due to sea star wasting disease (SSWD), are thriving in these cooler waters, providing valuable insight into ...

The Sunflower Sea Star is the world's largest starfish - it has up to 24 arms and is able to grow to over a metre in diameter. This Pacific Coast keystone species was assessed as Endangered.

"We can hit the ground running," Ashley Kidd, conservation project manager at the Sunflower Star Laboratory, told the Los Angeles Times. Sunflower sea stars once thrived along the Pacific Coast ...

Sunflower sea stars can grow to be a meter in diameter, sprout dozens of arms, and zoom voraciously around the ocean floor, gobbling up crabs, clams, snails and urchins in its path. They’re the ...

This work spans marine, forest, and desert ecosystems, aiming to protect keystone species like the sunflower sea star-an organism vital to the coastal kelp forest ecosystem-and help conserve the ...

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