Storms this winter have left thousands of starfish lying stranded along the Welsh coast. Many starfish are still alive when they get washed ashore but many will die as they cannot survive being ...

Beaches along the shore of England's south coast got a surprise over the weekend when thousands of marine animals, most notedly starfish, washed ashore and left the sand littered with their bodies.

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Crown-of-thorns Starfish, or COTS, are estimated to be responsible for an nearly 40 percent of the reef’s total decline in coral cover. Human divers have trouble keeping up with them, so the ...

US scientists believe they've at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars. A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida has been attacking the sea stars - often known as ...

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