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.

Scientists say they have finally discovered the cause behind the death of more than 5 billion sea stars along the Pacific coast of North America, solving a mystery that has lasted over a decade. As ...

Starting in 2013, sea stars along the Pacific Coast began dying by the billions. Their once full and vibrant arms shriveled, twisted, and fell off. Within a few days, what was a living, colorful ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known ...

More than a decade after a mysterious sickness began killing billions of sea stars off the Pacific Coast, scientists say they've identified the bacteria that causes the deadly disease. A team of at ...