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Title    The Mystery of the Disappearing Starfish
Date    Saturday November 22 2014, @12:55PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the neutronfish-are-starfish-that-went-supernova dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/11/22/0158245

DeathMonkey writes:

The Seattle Times reports on a string of grisly sea-star die-offs.

Sea-stars on the West Coast are dying at an unprecedented and alarming rate. This most recent outbreak was discovered in Washington in 2013 and continues to confound Ecologists.

New research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has linked the wasting disease to a virus that has been found in sea-stars since the 1940s. Which raises the question of what would cause this recent, explosive outbreak?

Links
  1. "DeathMonkey" - https://soylentnews.org/~DeathMonkey/
  2. " The Seattle Times reports on a string of grisly sea-star die-offs." - http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2025043554_seastarvirusxml.html
  3. "New research" - http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/12/1416625111.full.pdf+html
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