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Lab-grown starfish released into wild for the first time ever, saving species from extinction
Due to sea star wasting disease, lower oxygen levels in seawater, and rising temperatures, starfish populations are at risk ...
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How do you ‘grow’ an endangered starfish? Bay Area scientists are finding out
due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease. In their absence, purple urchins surged in population and chewed through entire undersea forests of bull kelp, which are the foundation for a ...
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Bay Area scientists develop lab-grown starfish
Researchers hope to revive the population of sunflower sea stars in an effort to support kelp forests along the California ...
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Sea Stars And Sea Otters Work Together To Maintain Canadian Kelp Forests
96% of the sunflower star population was wiped out in 2015 and 2016. While sea otters were unaffected by wasting disease and continued to eat large urchins, the populations of medium-sized urchins ...
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Scientists learn how to ‘grow’ endangered starfish
due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease. In their absence, purple urchins surged in population and chewed through entire undersea forests of bull kelp, which are the foundation for a ...