While they have no backbone, sunflower sea stars ( Pycnopodia helianthoides) mean business–especailly when faced with spiny ...

Sunflowers are the exuberant darlings of the summer garden, and you can still plant them in August.

The sunflower star played the victim in a chilling scenario of how climate change can topple nature’s row of dominoes. The saga began with a patch of unusually warm ocean water in 2013 off the ...

Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in ...

Sunflower sea stars scare off red sea urchins, offering a simple, natural way to protect and restore kelp forests.

The sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) can be found throughout intertidal and subtidal coastal waters of the ...

In underwater experiments off Alaska, red sea urchins kept their distance from kelp blades placed near caged sunflower sea ...

The sunflower sea star, Pycnopodia helianthoides – a stunning behemoth in the invertebrate community with 24 arms measuring up to one meter from tip to tip, one of the largest and heaviest sea ...

The Sunflower Star Laboratory, a nonprofit based in Monterey, seeks to rear sunflower stars in captivity and reintroduce them into marine environments where they have become locally extinct.

In 2023-24, the organization is supporting more than 2,000 farmers with improved-quality sunflower seeds, fertilizers, training and necessary financial support to cultivate 2,170 acres of fallow ...

In underwater experiments off Alaska, red sea urchins kept their distance from kelp placed near caged sunflower sea stars, ...