Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast ...

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their ...

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium ...

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind ...

Scientists have identified bacteria as the culprit behind a mass sea star die-off along North America's Pacific coast, ...

A new study points a finger at a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida, which belongs to the same genus as Vibrio ...

A mysterious illness has killed billions of sea stars in the past decade. After a four-year search, scientists have uncovered ...

Researchers have identified Vibrio pectenicida as the pathogen responsible for the devastating sea star wasting disease, ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from ...

Scientists have identified Vibrio pectenicida as the bacteria responsible for the sea star wasting disease that has devastated populations along the California coast.

An estimated 5 billion sea stars have died due to a sea star-wasting disease in oceans around the world. A team of ...