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In 2013, a mysterious epidemic turned billions of sea stars between Mexico and Alaska into goo. Now we know why ...
Researchers have identified Vibrio pectenicida as the pathogen responsible for the devastating sea star wasting disease, ...
Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of ...
More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...
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 ...
Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists ...
What is the sea star wasting disease? Over a decade, sea stars have been disappearing and researchers finally know why.
A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida ...
They have up to 24 arms and grow to the size of a bicycle tire. Starting in 2013, these creatures and other sea star species along the west coast of North America died in epidemic proportions. The ...