Scientists finally solve the mystery of melting sea stars
For 12 years, researchers in Washington and British Columbia have been tracking down a mystery.
Along the Pacific coast, sea stars were dissolving into goo. This phenomenon was given a name: sea star wasting disease and it killed billions of these marine creatures.
For more than a decade, scientists studied the wasting disease but couldn’t figure out why it was happening.
A new paper published this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution details a likely culprit.
Guest:
John Ryan, KUOW environment reporter
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