Their disappearance, combined with a massive marine heat wave called “the blob,” set off a cascade of catastrophic ecological changes that turned these kelp biodiverse hot spots into vast sea urchin ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars – often known ...
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Discovery of sea star wasting disease cause sheds light on kelp forest collapse and recovery
In Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveal the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that has ...
There has much coverage of the plight of sunflower sea stars, the large starfishes with 16 to 24 arms that inhabit the ...
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A deadly pathogen decimated sunflower sea stars. Look inside the lab working to bring them back by freezing and thawing their larvae
Along a working California harbor, where gulls wheel over weathered pilings and the old Western Flyer—the ship John Steinbeck ...
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