Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are declining at a fast pace.

Roughly 6 billion sunflower stars have died in their range from Baja California to Alaska since 2013, due to an ailment known as sea star wasting disease ... do just that. Before her was one ...

A sea star wasting disease event, beginning in 2013 ... which transported the stars right before the California seaweed festival. “A lot of people like them,” said Pitt.

With the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease ... as the disease has a long incubation period with symptoms that may not become apparent for 16 months or more after infection.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state. The disease was found in a hunter-harvested deer in Lanier County.