Interestingly, Burt and colleagues found that sea otters only ate larger urchins, while sunflower stars specialized on medium-sized urchins. Therefore, kelp forests in British Columbia rely on ...

Michael Hart and his colleague Daryn Stover sifted through mounds of data going back over a million years in their quest to find out whether humans carry the same allele differences as sea stars. Why?

SAN FRANCISCO— Following a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that imperiled sunflower sea stars may warrant protection under the ...