MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- An underwater disease is killing starfish up and down the West Coast. There are fears this disease could spread even further. It's having an impact on the ocean food ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit starfish -- ...

John Carpenter’s The Thing famously features an alien menace capable of mimicking any creature (human or otherwise) that it has ever encountered. The creature uses that ability to hide in plain sight ...

Briggs Holtry, 9-years-old of Surfside Beach, picks up starfish to return to the water on Monday. Thousands of small starfish washed ashore during low tide on Garden City Beach, S.C. in 2020. If you ...

PORT ARANSAS, Texas — Beachgoers spotted something new crawling on another Texas beach recently. Christine shared a video with KHOU 11 of a 'starfish' crawling along the coast in Port Aransas. The ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration this ...

For centuries, scientists have wondered: Where is the head of a starfish? Researchers mapped starfish genes to solve the mystery, and it wasn't what they expected. Turns out, starfish genes suggest it ...

It was the starfish arms walking off on their own that alerted biologist Steven Fradkin that something was terribly wrong at Starfish Point at Olympic National Park. Next he noticed white lesions ...

Sea stars have made a “patchy” recovery from the mysterious Sea Star Wasting Syndrome that has decimated the population, but many species remain devastated by the disease. Elaine Thompson AP When it ...

A mysterious wasting disease seen in starfish around the world may be the result of respiratory distress tied to warming oceans, according to a new study. These environmental changes are likely ...