The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than 3 feet across — that roams the ocean floor in orange, yellow and ... scientist at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories on Monterey Bay who ...

Botanical Beach will be closed 24 hours to the public this weekend for a day of Indigenous tradition. The beach will be ...

One of the first reports of a devastating starfish disease in Europe has raised concern about its potential impact on marine ecosystems. Sea star wasting disease has decimated starfish populations in ...

For the past year and a half, a killer has been on the loose, taking out millions of starfish up and down the ... said Robert Paine, a retired marine ecologist at the University of Washington ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration ...

Beachgoers in western Washington will get a special viewing opportunity along the shorelines to see starfish, sea slugs, and other marine life. While Tuesday's low tide will be the weakest of the ...

Sunflower sea stars, hit by a “climate-fueled pandemic,” play a key role in keeping marine ecosystems balanced. By Catrin Einhorn Sunflower sea stars, huge starfish that until recently thrived ...