They are making progress in their efforts to understand why sea stars are dying at such rapid rates -- they're calling it the largest wildlife die-off ever recorded. Several years ago, researchers ...

The crash in sunflower starfish corresponds with ocean warming by up to 4 degrees Celsius that started in 2014. Trawl surveys from Mexico to the Canadian border recorded a total wipeout of ...

Greenland Shark is considered the longest-living vertebrate species in the world, taking a record-breaking 150 ... Sunflower Sea Star is the world's largest starfish - it has up to 24 arms and ...

Over the past decade, a mysterious disease has devastated the starfish’s population ... Service called the “largest marine wildlife disease outbreak on record.” If the proposal is finalized ...

A GIANT spiny starfish found in Oban Bay could be the largest of its kind ever spotted ... which is over three feet from tip to tip, could be a record breaker. The average starfish is 4.7 to ...

in what officials described as the largest marine wildlife disease outbreak on record. The sickness starts with lethargy and lesions followed by tissue decay. Starfish’s limbs drop off and they ...