A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

YACHATS, Ore. — For much of his career, Bruce Menge assumed he would conduct the same research until he died. The marine ...

Scientists have discovered that each of the sea star’s tube feet is driven independently using local feedback from the environment. Murat Inan/Getty Images Sea stars move at a crawling pace, sometimes ...

A healthy sunflower sea star is seen on the seafloor in 2014. (Photo by Ed Gullekson/Washington Department of Fish and WIldlife, provided by NOAA Fisheries) One of the world’s largest sea stars is on ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with the giant pink star, gives hope the technique could be repeated to save the ...

While exploring the ocean floor, she finds a sea star and assumes it can be “opened” like a shell. But instead of opening it, he explains how it really works — then takes her underwater to reveal ...

Have you ever seen a sea star move? To many of us, sea star seem motionless, like a rock on the ocean's floor, but in actuality, they have hundreds of tube feet attached to their underbelly. These ...

Earlier this week, the sunflower sea star was listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains a “Red List of Threatened Species”. With the ...

Sunflower sea stars, hit by a “climate-fueled pandemic,” play a key role in keeping marine ecosystems balanced. By Catrin Einhorn Sunflower sea stars, huge starfish that until recently thrived in ...

Before 2013, divers on North America’s west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast’s iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...