A wasting disease killed millions of sea stars. After years of searching, scientists just found a cause.
Vox Open Sourced
AUGUST 4, 2025
She’s reflecting on a time in December 2013, on the coast of Washington state, when she went out at low tide and saw hundreds of sick, dying sea stars. The question in 2013 was: What, exactly, was killing all these stars? But all that fearsome hunting was, it seems, pretty key to ecosystem health. It was really horrible.”
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