Two pioneering studies by researchers from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

Beneath the waves are millions of dangerous sea creatures – and they exist on every continent, from Oceania to Asia and ...

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – The fate of the Blue Angels’ appearance at this month’s Sea and Sky Airshow at Jacksonville Beach hangs in the balance as the government shutdown continues to impact ...

Not all heroes wear capes; some wear pajamas, like this woman who recently rescued a starfish from her balcony. Sophie Cunningham was startled when she woke up on the morning of September 8 to ...

A mysterious marine epidemic has erased billions of sea stars from North America’s Pacific coast. After more than a decade of unanswered questions, scientists have traced the disaster to a single ...

For years, it has been one of the biggest mysteries in marine biology: What is killing the starfish? Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a ...

Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the last decade, and a Bay Area team is at the forefront of an effort to restore ...

Researchers said Monday that a bacteria related to cholera was responsible for the deaths of more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific Coast of North America since 2013. The discovery, reported in ...

The disease is gruesome. It starts with lesions, then the sea star’s limbs begin to twist and some of them fall off completely. The creature ultimately wastes away into a pile of goo. This terrifying ...