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

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

Researchers have identified Vibrio pectenicida as the pathogen responsible for the devastating sea star wasting disease, ...

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion starfish off the Pacific coast of North America.

Scientists have found Vibrio pectenicida causes sea star wasting, a disease devastating Pacific starfish and threatening marine ecosystems.

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

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

An estimated 5 billion sea stars have died due to a sea star-wasting disease in oceans around the world. A team of ...

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

Between 5 billion and 6 billion sea stars on the West Coast have died, according to some estimates. The loss of so many led ...

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