Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

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

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

Scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic, light-activated cells ...

The last perfect men's bracket in 2024 almost made it through the first round but was broken after No. 8 Utah State won over No. 9 TCU. It survived 31 games. In 2023, it took just 25 games for ...

The team studied the motion of egg cells produced by starfish—an organism that scientists have long used as a classic model for understanding cell growth and development. The researchers focused ...

At BP, where he spent more than 20 years, including five years in its executive team, former colleagues credit him for being a good operator with a record for delivery, notably in turning round ...

The “one-in-a-billion” perfectly round egg brought in a staggering £420, or roughly $550, at auction Tuesday. The rare egg was identified at Fenton Farm shortly before Christmas and was ...