For years, it has been one of the biggest mysteries in marine biology: What is killing the starfish? Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a ...
Turns out we’ve been looking at starfish all wrong. First, they’re not fish. They belong to a group of marine invertebrates called echinoderms, which also includes sea urchins, sand dollars and sea ...
A team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease The cause of a sea star-wasting disease was determined to be a bacterium known as Vibrio pectenicida The disease ...