A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

New research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium reveals a surprising ripple effect in coastal ecosystems: the collapse of one ...

A devastating sea star plague triggered an unexpected ecological shift, creating a mussel boom that sea otters turned into a ...

Take the sunflower sea star: When it eats its preferred meal of a tasty purple sea urchin, it first pushes its stomach out through its mouth, then slurps everything back in to digest.

Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Sea lions carve effortless arcs through the ... She notes that in the waters north of San Francisco, purple urchin barrens now blanket the seafloor where there were once kelp holdfasts.

The orange and purple stars have a hungry appetite for ... In the sweltering sea temperatures, kelp forests declined, kelp-eating sea urchin numbers exploded, and sea otters shifted their diet ...

New research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium reveals a surprising ripple effect in coastal ecosystems: the collapse of one ...

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the ...