Sea star larvae have been stored at -200°C and thawed for the first time, a step towards restoring populations that have been ...

Jason Hodin, a marine biologist who leads the Friday Harbor sunflower sea star project, described the success at Birch as “a pretty big breakthrough.” Now Dr. Hodin is sharing with Birch his ...

With its ability to grow to as big as three feet across, armed with up to 24 limbs covered with tiny suction tubes, the ...

“We’ve been talking about this for five years now, it’s pretty exciting ... any captive-bred star before, so we have no idea what to expect,” said Hodin. If the sea stars are successful ...

It’s a pretty big deal, according to those involved ... A biggie is understanding more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish.

This happened after a disease called Sea Star Wasting Syndrome (SSWS) killed off most of its population in Western America, back in 2013. “It pretty much just liquifies them right on the spot ...

“Ochre star populations are doing pretty well in BC right now,” University ... RELATED: Scientists race to rescue world’s fastest sea star from oblivion Sea stars begin life as free-floating ...

“Sea star wasting disease came through quite a few years ago, and that pretty much decimated the population,” Ben Morrow, an aquarist at the Omaha Zoo, tells WOWT’s Bella Caracta.

“I was pretty determined that I was going to figure ... and it can use all of its energy to heal itself.” When a sea star first shows symptoms of the disease, it is immediately quarantined ...