Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunflower sea stars, the largest of sea stars, were formerly common in tide pools in Oregon. However, this species has suffered ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. five sunflower sea stars in varying shades of purple, orange and yellow cling to a rock Billions of sea stars have wasted away in ...
Pycnopodia helianthoides, commonly known as the sunflower star, is a massive, vibrantly-colored seastar predator that once ...
For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...
Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is pleased to announce the next presentation in its Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series on ...
The Sequoia Park Zoo’s 15th Conservation Lecture Series continues Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the zoo’s Flamingo Room at 3414 W St. in Eureka. Cal Poly Humboldt faculty members David Sinn, Rafael Cuevas ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars — often known ...
The kelp forests of central California, and particularly those within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, have undergone interesting and, in some cases, dramatic changes in the past decade. Since ...
For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish — more than ...
Riah Evin, a biologist at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, propagates endangered Sunflower Sea Stars on Nov. 20 in San Francisco. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) For the last ...