For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish ...

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For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish ...

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the coast, researchers say.

One of the biggest starfish is easily the sunflower sea star with a 39-inch diameter. Sunflower sea stars have between 16 and 24 arms and can be virtually any color.

In 2013, sea star wasting syndrome made its way up and down the coast. Today, the Sunflower Star Laboratory in Moss Landing is working to bring the species back to the bay.

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star.

The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than 3 feet across — that roams the ocean floor in orange, yellow and purple.

For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish ...

“We’re making a camera for the lab that can track and analyze the behavior of the sunflower starfish.” Birch Aquarium in San Diego has three male and one female sunflower stars.