A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast ...

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

Alyssa Gehman is seen diving in the Burke Channel along B.C.'s Central Coast and making notes on sea stars there. Around 90% of the sea star population along North America's West Coast was wiped ...

Another important wolf for these kelp forests, though, is a sea star known as pycnopodia helianthoides, or the “sunflower sea star.” Sunflower sea stars are beautiful, often purple or pink ...

Photo of the sunflower sea star is available for media use. Credit: NPS Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with ...

In 2013–14, one of the largest marine disease outbreaks on record decimated sea star populations along the West Coast, turning over six billion Sunflower Stars into goo and rendering them functionally ...

A new study published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences says the cold-water fiords on the ...