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In 2013, the sea stars of the Pacific had their own version of a Walking Dead-style nightmare. From Mexico to Alaska, otherwise healthy stars seemed to literally rot away before scientists’ eyes from ...
Columbo, eat your heart out: A team of scientists has just solved a massive marine murder mystery, nabbing the culprit behind the deaths of billions of sea stars over the past decade. In a new study, ...
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), ...