Alyssa Gehman vividly recalls seeing starfish for the first time while on a kayaking trip in British Columbia's Desolation ...

As we make our way deeper, she points out odd creatures that only the ocean could dream ... though, is a sea star known as pycnopodia helianthoides, or the “sunflower sea star.” ...

B.C. researchers have found that the fiords of the Central Coast may be providing refuge for the critically endangered sunflower sea star ... than elsewhere in the ocean. Researchers suspect ...

Sunflowers, one of the world’s largest sea stars, have declined rapidly because of sea star wasting disease. They’ve lost more than 90% of their Pacific Ocean population since 2013. Sunflower sea ...

The sea star wasting ... and death. Sunflower sea stars have never recovered from being nearly wiped out by the disease and are now classified as critically endangered by the International Union for ...

A new study shows that exposure to pesticides and microplastics could set back the recovery of sunflower sea stars ... s coast but now nearly extinct. The starfish, a keystone species native ...

Alyssa Gehman vividly recalls seeing starfish for ... forests to grow. The sunflower stars are voracious predators, eating most things living on the bottom of the ocean, including sea urchins ...

But the ocean ... sea star population. Gehman said divers with the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance returned from the Burke Channel off the central coast with stories of seeing many ...