Along a working California harbor, where gulls wheel over weathered pilings and the old Western Flyer—the ship John Steinbeck ...

A sunflower sea star is seen on the ocean floor. They are some of the world’s biggest sea stars. Their habitat ranges from waters from the western tip of the Aleutian Islands to the coast of Baja ...

There are so few of the sunflower sea stars remaining, researchers don’t think there are enough for them to find each other on their own to reproduce – so the species is getting a helping hand from ...

CANNON BEACH — Mylasia Miklas was exploring the tide pools around Haystack Rock last month when she spotted what looked like a baby octopus. The tides were especially low, and after taking a closer ...

The sunflower sea star may receive federal protection. Photo courtesy National Park Service. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — While Sebastian the crab may have tried to convince Ariel that life under the sea was ...

Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star. That’s the plot line coming from a small upstart research facility in Moss ...

The sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) can be found throughout intertidal and subtidal coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean, from Alaska to at least northern Baja California, ...

Summertime is sunflower time, but when we say "summer" and pinpoint Southern California on the map, we're really sort-of-kind-of talking about late spring. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, ...