Ochre sea stars, an iconic species once common along the Oregon Coast, are making a recovery after years of decline due to a mysterious wasting disease. That’s according to a study published earlier ...

The "baby boom" of ochre sea stars that followed a population crash a decade ago is enabling the species to recover on the Oregon Coast, according to new research by scientists at Oregon State ...

After more than a decade of mystery, scientists say they’ve finally identified what wiped out more than 5 billion sea ...

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ...

After a deadly disease nearly wiped them out, ochre sea stars are returning to Oregon’s coast, restoring balance to the ...

Once wiped out by wasting disease, ochre sea stars are re-emerging. Scientists now see rising numbers and renewed ecological ...

(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) ...