It was the starfish arms walking off on their own that alerted biologist Steven Fradkin that something was terribly wrong at Starfish Point at Olympic National Park. Next he noticed white lesions ...

Stars twinkle overhead, but under the sea, stars huddle together. Sea stars, that is! Sea stars (Asteroidea), commonly known as starfish, are invertebrates called echinoderms — creatures with hard, ...

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- An underwater disease is killing starfish up and down the West Coast. There are fears this disease could spread even further. It's having an impact on the ocean food ...

A close-up photo of the common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), a starfish found in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Photo: © Alexander Semenov Invertebrates ...

An ocean expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has come across something unusual in the waters off the southeastern United States. Researchers aboard NOAA's ...

Studies nationwide about 'sea star wasting syndrome', or the rash of deaths of millions of starfish, have come up with a new explanation this week. Scientists have been observing the shores of ...