Scientists are always baffled when odd animals show up in unlikely places, especially without a logical explanation. That is ...

The discovery has buoyed hopes for a potential comeback from a wasting disease that has caused millions of purple, red and orange starfish, or sea stars, to curl up, grow lesions, lose limbs and ...

Raimondi said there seems to be a progression, or sequence, of infection in which different starfish species get the disease at different times. The Ochre star, the purple or orange starfish most ...

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 ...

The virus has ravaged 20 varieties of starfish, going through a kind of progression, usually starting with the Ochre star, the purple or orange starfish most commonly seen in intertidal regions ...

The discovery has buoyed hopes for a potential comeback from a wasting disease that has caused millions of purple, red and orange starfish, or sea stars, to curl up, grow lesions, lose limbs and ...

There are approximately 2,000 species of starfish, all unique in shape, size, and color—from blue and purple to pink and orange. These star-shaped sea creatures are covered in all sorts of ...

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 ...

Next he noticed white lesions pitting the skin of the usually colorful orange, purple and brick-red starfish that are the signature of Olympic tide pools. Worse, the starfish, usually so thick and ...