The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is pleased to announce the next presentation in its Maritime Distinguished Speaker Series on ...

Pycnopodia helianthoides, commonly known as the sunflower star, is a massive, vibrantly-colored seastar predator that once ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. five sunflower sea stars in varying shades of purple, orange and yellow cling to a rock Billions of sea stars have wasted away in ...

In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in the Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia, ...

A sunflower sea star may be about to snack on some sea urchins in California. Brent Durand/Moment via Getty Images Before 2013, divers on North America’s west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The ...

A small laboratory in Moss Landing that’s aiming to repopulate the ocean’s decimated sunflower sea star population, just got a leg— or rather sixteen legs-up — toward its goal through a new experiment ...

The Sequoia Park Zoo’s 15th Conservation Lecture Series continues Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the zoo’s Flamingo Room at 3414 W St. in Eureka. Cal Poly Humboldt faculty members David Sinn, Rafael Cuevas ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...