Starfish, or sea stars, have long captivated scientists and divers with their unique appearance and mysterious nature. Recent ...

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

Life originated in the ocean and there are many more major groups of animals there than on land! For example echinoderms (starfish, urchins, etc.) only occur in the ocean. Despite this, there are far ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

Alyssa Gehman vividly recalls seeing starfish for the first time while on a kayaking ... off the central coast with stories of seeing many sunflower sea stars, the multi-legged animal that can grow as ...

However, she added, if the starfish population could ... an aquarium with 40 sunflower sea stars — the largest collection of the animals in the world. The researchers will bring 10 of those ...