Helle Andersen

The disease that killed millions of the once-ubiquitous sea stars seems to be fading.

Marine biologists are zeroing in on the combined factors — including a rise in water temperature — that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska…

The North Olympic Peninsula's remaining sea stars may be holding their own, but there is no evidence yet of a remarkable recovery of young sea stars seen elsewhere along the Pacific coast, researchers say.

With nearly all of the mature sea stars dead and gone, rarely seen juvenile…

Visitors to the North Olympic Peninsula's two major marine science centers are likely to see few sea stars.

Sea star wasting disease, which has decimated wild populations, also is tearing through captive collections.

The disease has accelerated this summer, said staff members…