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Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars
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 as starfish – typically have five arms and some species sport up to 24 arms.
Mystery of why sea stars keep turning into goo finally solved — and it's not what scientists thought
A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida, which turns the marine creatures into goo.
After a decade of death, Canadian scientists say they've found the sea star killer
Scientists say they have found the cause behind the disease that turns vibrant, 24-armed sea stars into puddles of goo.Melanie Prentice, a research scientist at the Hakai Institute, is part of a team that has spent years investigating the cause of this disease.
We Finally Know What’s Killing So Many Starfish
Sea star wasting disease has devastated marine ecosystems for over a decade. Now scientists have named the cause.
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion starfish
Worst hit was a species called the sunflower sea star, which lost around 90% of its population in the outbreak’s first five years.
Bay Area scientists work to restore sea star population devastated by pathogen
Scientists have determined the cause of an epidemic that has devastated a species of starfish, wiping out billions over the last decade, and a Bay Area team is at the forefront of an effort to restore their population.
Starfish Epidemic That Killed 5 Billion Is Finally Solved
Scientists have finally solved the mystery behind the devastating starfish wasting disease that has killed over 5 billion starfish across the Pacific Ocean since 2013. The culprit behind this massive starfish die-off affecting more than 20 species from Mexico to Alaska has been identified as a deadly bacteria called Vibrio pentenicida,
Scientists identify the bacterium behind billions of sea star deaths
By Shreya Dasgupta More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific coast. The sea star wasting disease caused the stars to develop lesions,
Researchers say they have identified the mysterious killer of more than 5 billion sea stars
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.
5 Billion Sea Stars Have Shattered and Died Over the Past 10 Years, Scientists May Finally Know Why
An estimated 95% of sunflower sea stars died during the 10-year epidemic After an estimated 5 billion sea stars died due to a wasting disease in oceans globally, scientists have identified the root cause of the disease.
The Cause of the Mysterious Sea Star Wasting Disease Has Been Found
Some five billion sea stars have been killed by a mysterious "sea star wasting disease" in the last decade. Scientists finally figured out what's causing it.
The bacteria killing sea stars in the Pacific: How our team uncovered a decade-long mystery
Sea stars are vital to ocean ecosystems; however, a pathogen has been killing them in large numbers, rendering some species ...
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Researchers discover cause of sea star wasting disease
Today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a group of researchers reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). This discovery comes more than a decade after the start of the marine epidemic that ...
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Highly endangered sunflower star finds refuge in Canadian fjords
Researchers at Hakai Institute have been conducting biomass density surveys along Canada's coast for several decades. Thus, they notice when populations of ocean creatures living there change.
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At Hakai we sit on the only deeded land on an uninhabited island, Calvert. The island is 161 square kilometers and is in turn in the middle of an uninhabited 1,200-square-kilometer marine ...