Purple and orange starfish clutch the rocks, as if hanging on for dear life. In fact, they are. “It’s a lot worse than it was last week,” said Harvell, a marine epidemiologist at Cornell ...

Sea stars, also known colloquially as starfish, have rebounded on ... This variety has lots of nicknames including Stimpson's sun star, orange sun star and sun sea star. Researchers don't know ...

The syndrome primarily affects the mussel-eating Pisaster ochraceus, a large purple and orange starfish, but Raimondi said that at least 10 species of sea stars have shown signs of the disease ...