Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a decade after a mysterious sickness began killing billions of sea stars off the Pacific Coast, scientists say they've ...

University of Washington scientists continue to take steps toward replenishing the sea star population, a species that was wiped out along the West Coast more than a decade ago. The scientists spent ...

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.