The new study, funded by The Nature Conservancy and the National Science Foundation, shows that a sunflower sea star on average eats about 0.68 sea urchins per day, and that they eat starved ...

In Northern California, purple sea urchins are decimating kelp forests. Though the species of urchin causing problems may vary by region, the damage is the same. NNehring/iStock This article is ...

These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels The 24-armed sunflower sea star is not a picky eater, which may makes it crucial to restoring kelp forests.

The new study, funded by The Nature Conservancy and the National Science Foundation, shows that a sunflower sea star on average eats about 0.68 sea urchins per day, and that they eat starved ...

These 24-armed, roughly 3-feet-wide sea stars can move 40 inches per minute when on the prowl for crabs, snails, sea urchins, and other ocean creatures to eat.

Sunflower sea stars eat about 0.68 sea urchins a day, and they will eat the starved urchins 21% faster than well-fed urchins in healthy kelp forests, according to the study.

Sunflower sea stars — recently decimated from the ocean off western Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington — are like wolves of the kelp forest, eating sea urchins that will overgraze if ...

Key takeawaysKelp forests play an important role in healthy coastal ecosystems, but they prefer cold water and die off if the ...

Joe Rosato Jr. reports. Purple sea urchins, beware: There’s a purple urchin-eating predator on the horizon — and its name is the sunflower sea star.

A team featuring Canadian scientists has, after years of testing, determined the cause of the devastating sea star wasting ...

The new study, funded by The Nature Conservancy and the National Science Foundation, shows that a sunflower sea star on average eats about 0.68 sea urchins per day, and that they eat starved ...