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

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

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic turned billions of sea stars between Mexico and Alaska into goo. Now we know why ...

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.

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

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

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

What is the sea star wasting disease? Over a decade, sea stars have been disappearing and researchers finally know why.

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