A mysterious illness has killed billions of sea stars in the past decade. After a four-year search, scientists have uncovered ...

Sea stars are vital to ocean ecosystems; however, a pathogen has been killing them in large numbers, rendering some species ...

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their ...

Sea star wasting disease has devastated starfish populations in North America, driving some species to the brink of ...

A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium ...

A new study points a finger at a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida, which belongs to the same genus as Vibrio ...

Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind ...

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...

Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

Scientists identified bacteria causing sea star wasting disease that killed billions along Pacific coast ecosystems.

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more ...