Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

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

The sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), a beautifully colored species in bright orange, yellow, or purple hues, was the largest and fastest of the local sea stars, and with its 20+ rays (or ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

A many-limbed creature called the sunflower star has found a refuge to protect itself from a mysterious epidemic that has decimated its population 1. The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kidd, conservation project manager with the Sunflower Star Laboratory in the Monterey Bay area, was part of a squad set to travel to an aquarium in Alaska, where the plan was to inject the ...