Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars

The bacteria killing sea stars in the Pacific: How our team uncovered a decade-long mystery

A sunflower sea star in Knight Inlet on the British Columbia coast. (Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute)In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo. Its name, sea star wasting disease (SSWD), describes what you might have seen if you wandered the shores of the Pacific Northwest at that time: contorted sea star bodies and fragmented arms littered…

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Scientists find culprit after billions of sea stars killed off Pacific Coast: ‘It’s really quite gruesome’

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.