When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, ...
Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...
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Scientists find endangered sea stars using groundbreaking DNA detection method
A juvenile sea star roughly the size of a teacup.
A closer look at the sea stars around the Gulf of Maine reveals creatures far stranger and more fascinating than their simple ...
A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for California's kelp forests.
There are so few of the sunflower sea stars remaining, researchers don’t think there are enough for them to find each other on their own to reproduce – so the species is getting a helping hand from ...
Hope is on the horizon for the critically endangered Sunflower Sea Star thanks to a groundbreaking collaborative effort among accredited aquariums and zoos and research laboratories Birch Aquarium at ...
After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013.
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