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

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered ...

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

A new study published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences says the cold-water fiords on the ...

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 ...

A new study finds that cold-water trenches off B.C.’s central coast could be a marine refuge for critically endangered ...

Since its collapse, California's sunflower sea star population hasn't meaningfully bounced back on its own. But in recent years, major strides have been made in breeding the animals in captivity ...

A new study published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences says the cold-water fiords on the central coast may hold a key to sea star survival by serving as a marine ...

A baby sunflower sea star at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) However, she added, if the starfish population could be revived, it could "turn the ...