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

Americans are skeptical of the term environmentalist, so a new report from the aquarium deals with ‘wonder and respect and ...

Starfish are a keystone species and had kept populations of sea urchins in check, which in turn allowed kelp forests to grow. The sunflower stars are voracious predators, eating most things living ...

According to the Marine Species Report Card, issued in Feb. by the Aquarium of the Pacific, Ochre sea stars are a keystone predator that was ravaged by a wasting disease that caused up to 99% ...

Without sea stars to balance the food web ... Researchers are galvanized by the high stakes. If the keystone species puts a check on urchins, allowing kelp forests to heal, we could recover ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

Colossal’s website spells out 10 steps for mammoth resurrection. Steps nine and 10 are: “implant the early embryo into the ...

In 1969, ecologist Robert Paine coined the term “keystone species” after observing how the removal of a single predator—the sea star—dramatically altered intertidal communities. Sea otters have since ...