Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sunflower sea star may be about to snack on some sea urchins in California. Brent Durand/Moment via Getty Images Before 2013, ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific will soon celebrate two new additions to the institution’s offerings — including a yearlong special exhibit and an interactive touch pool. The exhibit, dubbed “Stars of the ...

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often ...

A team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson ...

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 ...