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| Death of the Stars | The Seattle Aquarium sits on Pier 59, above the cold, dark waters of Puget Sound. As children run inside its wood-beamed atrium, Lesanna Lahner peers into the largest display tank. A few salmon swim idly past barren rocks. "This used to be full of sea stars," says Lahner, the aquarium鈥 |
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| Scientists narrow in on syndrome killing off starfish along Pacific coast | Scientists are making some headway in figuring out what is killing millions of sea stars in the waters off the Pacific coast, from British Columbia to Mexico. |
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| Mystery illness decimating sea star populations | It鈥檚 an iconic summertime image in the Northwest: children playing on the shoreline at low tide, shoveling sand into plastic pails while purple and orange sea stars cling to exposed rocks nearby. |
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| Starfish 'ripping off their own arms' | Starfish off the United States coastline are ripping off their own appendages and dying in their thousands. |
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| West Coast's disappearing sea stars | Near the ferry docks on Puget Sound, a group of scientists and volunteer divers shimmy into suits and double-check their air tanks. They move with the urgency of a group on a mission. And they are. They鈥檙e trying to solve a marine mystery. |
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| Mysterious epidemic devastates starfish population off the Pacific Coast | Something strange is happening in Seattle鈥檚 waters. Laura James was one of the first to notice. She alerted scientists when starfish began washing up on the shores near her home. |
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| The starfish are dying, and no one knows why | Something is killing starfish up and down the West Coast and no one knows what. A mysterious illness that first appeared in June in Washington state has now spread from Sitka, Alaska, to San Diego. Starfish first waste away and then "turn into goo," divers say. Whatever is鈥 |
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| Falling Stars: Starfish Dying From 鈥淒isintegrating鈥 Disease | When marine researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz traveled to Alaska this summer, they noticed something unsettling in the waters near Sitka: populations of starfish were losing their arms. Then other reports started pouring in to their laboratory: from Southern California鈥 |