In this talk, the speakers will detail the idea and implementation of an “insurance population” of sea stars in Humboldt County, give the latest information on SSWS and outline the prospects for ...
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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 ...
Finding a cause for sea star wasting disease has been a goal for scientists, in part because the animals are a keystone species. A large community of researchers has been waiting for this news.
The sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) can be found throughout intertidal and subtidal coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean, from Alaska to at least northern Baja California, ...
In the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveals the culprit behind sea star wasting disease, a marine epidemic that has decimated sea star populations along the west coast of ...
The disease is gruesome. It starts with lesions, then the sea star’s limbs begin to twist and some of them fall off completely. The creature ultimately wastes away into a pile of goo. This terrifying ...
A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible. By Alexa Robles-Gil Christopher Harley, a marine biologist at the ...
Melanie Prentice receives funding from The Tula Foundation and The Nature Conservancy of California. Alyssa-Lois Gehman receives funding from the Tula Foundation and The Nature Conservancy. She is ...
Starting in 2013, sea stars along the Pacific Coast began dying by the billions. Their once full and vibrant arms shriveled, twisted, and fell off. Within a few days, what was a living, colorful ...
Sea urchins have no brains or hearts. But put them in the proximity of the unmistakable sunflower sea star, and somewhere in their pin cushion-like body, they sense trouble. That's the main finding of ...
A study published Monday offers clarity on a more than decade-long marine mystery: What has been killing the velvety sunflower sea star? In 2013, something began ravaging sea stars along the West ...
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