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A new ocean-inspired collection from Awe Inspired just dropped online, featuring gem-adorned finds and golden rings aplenty ...
Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...
Have you ever gazed at a starfish gliding across the ocean floor and thought, “That’s basically my distant cousin!”? Probably ...
Starfish are a keystone species and had kept populations of sea urchins in check, which in turn allowed kelp forests to grow. The sunflower stars are voracious predators, eating most things living on ...
A biggie is understanding more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish. Depending on how everything shakes out, Eddy surmises stars could ...
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.
SAN DIEGO — Starfish — also known as sea stars — are native to San Diego, but about a decade ago, their population was nearly wiped out along the entire West Coast. CBS 8’s Jenny Day ...
Authorities are investigating whether a mass wash-up of dead cockles at a popular holiday destination south of Adelaide is ...
The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few days when exposed to sea star wasting disease, whose cause is unknown. Since ...
By analysing the genomes of invertebrate animals, they discovered genes encoding bombesin-like neurohormones in the common starfish (Asterias rubens) and other echinoderms, such as sea urchins and ...