Over the past decade, the sunflower sea star has gone from a mighty predator of the Pacific Ocean floor to nearing extinction. The Nature Conservancy estimates that 5.75 billion sunflower sea ...

Dissolving Sea Stars Reveal a Damaged Ocean. Opinion. By SeaTrust Institute, Lynn Wilson published 6 June 2015 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Sunflower sea stars can move at a high speed — as far as sea stars go — traveling about 3.3 feet per minute. A Sunflower Star crawling through kelp on the Washington Coast. randimal/Getty Images ...

There are not many sunflower sea stars remaining in the Pacific Ocean. Sea star sunflowers are victims of a wasting disease, perhaps a virus, that killed 5.75 billion of them in a recent five-year ...

MOSS LANDING >> Sunflower sea stars are nearly extinct in Monterey Bay. But at the Sunflower Star Lab in Moss Landing, a group of 1-year-olds are growing and thriving. On Valentine’s Day 2024 ...

To test whether introducing captive-bred sunflower sea stars could help, the researchers collected 24 sunflower sea stars and 300 purple sea urchins near the San Juan Islands in Washington and ...

Sea stars species vary in what they eat—from mussels, and other shellfish, to snails, small fish, other sea stars and microalgae—but they are top predators, and the intertidal zone will be transformed ...

The sea stars consumed an average of 0.68 urchins a day, and when the urchins were starving, like they are in nutrient-poor urchin barrens, sea stars ate even more.

More than 80 percent of the ocher sea stars on the northern coast died as a result of that outbreak of sea star wasting syndrome. The survivors carry a genetic difference, say researchers.

Where is a sea star's head? Maybe just about everywhere Date: November 1, 2023 Source: Stanford University Summary: A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the ...