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It wasn’t that long ago that Oregon’s sea stars were doomed. In 2014, scientists were working quickly to identify the mysterious wasting disease that had already killed off millions of sea stars along ...
Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world, recover from catastrophic population declines.
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 ...
Sunflower sea stars, hit by a “climate-fueled pandemic,” play a key role in keeping marine ecosystems balanced.
A group of aquarists and marine scientists were able to successfully lab reproduce sunflower sea stars, a species nearly wiped to extinction.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of NPR's Short Wave about Antarctica's melting ice, the weird anatomy of sea stars, and how a sleepless night can ease depression in mice.
Sea of Stars, a gorgeous JRPG inspired by the best SNES games like Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG, is arriving on Game Pass on launch day.
The threatened species has dwindling numbers, and Friday Harbor scientists have spent the last five years growing sea stars in a lab for release and repopulation.
Scientists examined the process of hollow tube formation in sea stars that provides a blueprint for how the organs of other creatures develop.
Disease nearly wiped out sunflower sea stars about 10 years ago, and University of Washington scientists are using the lingering population to save the species.
Millions of Sea Stars have have died from wasting disease along the West Coast over the past ten years but now, scientists have figured out how to spawn the critically endangered Sunflower Sea Star.