Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast ...

As we make our way deeper, she points out odd creatures that only the ocean could dream up ... known as pycnopodia helianthoides, or the “sunflower sea star.” Sunflower sea stars are beautiful ...

But the ocean isn't as colourful now after a wasting disease tore through all varieties of sea stars along the North American ...

The scientist said that, as researchers look to raise sunflower sea stars in the laboratory and put them back in the ocean, their work in the fiords could be important — though she acknowledged ...

The disease outbreak is being driven by climate change, with warmer oceans making the effects more severe and deadly. Sunflower sea stars — who have up to 24 arms, can be a meter wide, and come in a ...