Gruesome epidemic is ravaging starfish populations in the Pacific
A
mysterious illness has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of
starfish on North America's west coast, and its symptoms are horrifying.
Dubbed "sea star wasting syndrome," the arms of an infected individual
will twist into knots, develop lesions, and finally crawl away in opposite directions until they tear away from its body, allowing its insides to spill out.
Researchers still aren't sure how the disease spreads, let alone where it comes from. What they do know is that sea stars occupy a pivotal niche in ocean ecosystems, and large-scale die outs are almost certainly a very bad sign. In a fascinating piece that's as sad as it is disturbing, PBS special correspondent Katie Campbell reports on how researchers and citizen scientists are teaming up to investigate the spread of the mysterious syndrome: Read Article
Researchers still aren't sure how the disease spreads, let alone where it comes from. What they do know is that sea stars occupy a pivotal niche in ocean ecosystems, and large-scale die outs are almost certainly a very bad sign. In a fascinating piece that's as sad as it is disturbing, PBS special correspondent Katie Campbell reports on how researchers and citizen scientists are teaming up to investigate the spread of the mysterious syndrome: Read Article
50kv Commentary:
It is omnisciently eerie that no scientist or marine biologist can even consider out loud the fact that Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster can not be ruled out from having a causal part in the Pacific genocide and multifaceted sea life die-off going on in the Pacific Ocean. ..... Morpheus ..... Feb 02 2014
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