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.

Scientists Celebrate as Endangered Sea Stars Reappear Along California Coast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A healthy sunflower sea star is seen on the seafloor in 2014. Sunflower sea stars are important for fish habitat because they eat ...

A juvenile sea star roughly the size of a teacup.

Ocean divers discovered a glimmer of hope offshore from the Bay Area when they spotted some of the largest sea stars in the world, sunflower sea stars, according to a NOAA ...

There are so few 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 humans. The ...

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 ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance, and another from the Institute of Ocean Sciences, ...

Scuba diver felt like "seeing a dinosaur." ...

Love is on the brain for Melissa Torres. She is part of the team working to save the beautiful, but critically endangered, sunflower sea star. “Gorgeous, purple, brown, pink, the sea stars are so ...

The sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) can be found throughout intertidal and subtidal coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean, from Alaska to at least northern Baja California, ...

Sunflower sea stars, a species of giant starfish, are critically endangered. Researchers tinkered with sperm in an aquarium lab to help them reproduce. A Sunflower Sea Star at the Birch ...