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

On any piece of rocky shore one notices bands of different life. The intertidal is a transition zone between land and sea ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

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 ...