Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snowlike flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor. Only occasional mutters among ...

Sea stars are vital to ocean ecosystems; however, a pathogen has been killing them in large numbers, rendering some species ...

Between 5 billion and 6 billion sea stars on the West Coast have died, according to some estimates. The loss of so many led ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn ...

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 ...

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

The Great Barrier Reef has experienced the largest annual decline in coral cover in two of its three regions since the ...

Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists ...