As important as the ecological effects of the disease are, the starfish meltdown affects people, too. The first ocean creature many kids see or touch, starfish are an ambassador to an unseen world ...

a status that suggests this crucial ocean species is only steps away from extinction. Over the past decade, a mysterious disease has devastated the starfish’s population. The decline is not only ...

If this disk’s temperature rises above 95 degrees (such as at low tide, when the animal may be isolated from cool ocean water), the starfish dies. To figure out how the animal stays cool ...

Studies nationwide about 'sea star wasting syndrome', or the rash of deaths of millions of starfish ... that can more easily grow in the Pacific Ocean thanks to warming waters providing a better ...

By C. Drew Harvell Dr. Harvell is the author of “Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease.” FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — Six years ago, I began investigating starfish dying by ...

From starfish and sea slugs to jellyfish and sponges, the ocean's invertebrates are some of the most ancient and diverse critters on Earth. And so are their superpowers, as marine biologist Drew ...

"Juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish appear to be the cockroach of the ocean — highly resilient and able to survive for months on food that we initially thought they would not eat," Dr Mos said.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...

An elderly man walks along the beach and sees a boy throwing washed-up starfish back into the ocean, one at a time, to save them. The man points out there are hundreds of starfish on miles of ...