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

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, ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion starfish off the Pacific coast of North America.

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

Scientists have found Vibrio pectenicida causes sea star wasting, a disease devastating Pacific starfish and threatening marine ecosystems.

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

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

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

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

The mass die-off, which began in 2013, saw sea star populations plunge and reshaped vital marine ecosystems in the U.S. and ...

The finding is critical, the study says, because it "will enable recovery efforts for sea stars and the ecosystems affected ...