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A mysterious disease has been turning sea stars into goo since 2013. Now, there’s a leading suspect behind the killings — a bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida, researchers re ...
Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness ...
Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast ...
A new study identifies the cause of sea star wasting disease, offering hope the animals can come back and perhaps even help ...
Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were killed.
There’s hope for an iconic ocean predator that has mostly disappeared from California’s coastlines: the sunflower sea star ...
A mysterious epidemic has wiped out billions of sea stars in recent years. A new study finally identifies the bacterium responsible.
Alyssa Gehman, a marine disease ecologist at the Hakai Institute and the University of British Columbia, led the team that cracked the case. They ran exposure experiments with sunflower sea stars ...
Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the ...
In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo. Its name, sea star wasting disease (SSWD), ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...
Sea Star Disease In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, with a lack of predatory sunflower sea stars, sea urchins proliferate in Hakai Pass, British Columbia, Canada, in 2019.