Scientists are unsure if warming temperatures are causing the bizarre invertebrates to spread.

Biologist Jackie Hilderling says four years of decline in B.C.'s sea star population is due to climate change warming local waters and making the animals susceptible to sea star-associated densovirus.

Sea star wasting syndrome, or disease as it has become known, hit Kachemak Bay hard in 2016, killing about 90 percent of sunflower and true star populations.

A swarm of jellyfish numbering in the hundreds washed ashore in the Sjáland area of Garðabær, a town just south of Reykjavík, yesterday.

Abundant slugs in Dillingham acting as a stressor to garden plants.

Scientists report the latest data from the Upper Gulf of Mexico, and the results aren’t good.

The colourful Portuguese man-of-war is more commonly seen in warmer waters. Their painful stings can be fatal to some.

Tube-Dwelling Worms on Seldovia Beach

Black slugs are impacting native plants in the Chugach Forest and may be spreading elsewhere.

Pyrosomes were first seen on the Oregon coast in 2014 and every year since. Recently they have been reported in Washington, BC and Alaska. These weird organisms that resemble large pink thimbles, could signal really big changes in the marine ecosystem.

The smallest California cuke I have found.

Drifting throngs of pyrosomes, jelly-like, glowing organisms native to tropical seas have invaded Pacific coastal waters from Southern California to the Gulf of Alaska this year, baffling researchers and frustrating fishing crews.

Squid are occasionally found in the area, but not very often.

Several dozen worms were observed during a Beluga hunt in Norton Bay.

Douglas Indian Association catalogs marine debris at the bottom of Gastineau Channel | Though it sounds like the subtitle to a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, ghost fishing is a real phenomenon. It's going on right now in Gastineau Channel.

Sea otter population growth not seen in recent history and shellfish harvest have been dropping.