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Scientists Discover the Reason Starfish Are Ripping Themselves Apart
2016-07-07 10:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Scientists believe? theyve identified a virus thats been ca?using millions of starfish to die ?a really horrifying death due to something called Sea Star Wasting Disease. SSWD is a starfishs nightmare. First, their limbs start going wacky and they tie themselves into knots (the technical term is, no joke, pretzeling). Then, their legs fall off one by one and crawl away from their bodies like little starfish zombie limbs. Finally, the starfish deflate (this is exactly what it sounds like),...
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Starfish Baby Boom Surprises Biologists
2016-05-24 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The devastation caused by a viral infection of sea stars along the United States Pacific coastline shows few signs of abating, continuing to kill its victims in a swift and grisly fashion. Yet against those odds, a huge new crop of sea star babies popped up after last year's spawning season, surprising researchers who have been tracking the epidemic. Bruce Menge, an Oregon State University marine ecologist who has studied sea stars along the coast for the past 30 years, found an unprecedented...
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BG Group delivers first gas from Starfish field, Trinidad and Tobago
2014-12-10 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
UK energy firm BG Group has delivered the first gas from its Starfish field, offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
Pacific starfish die-off continues, but there is hope
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: A grisly horror show is playing out along the West Coast of North America. Remains of millions of dead and dying sea stars, commonly known as starfish, litter the shoreline from Vancouver to San Diego. Those stars are the victims of a swift and brutal illness. First, the animals body deflates, as if drained of all its water. Then the trademark arms begin to curl, detaching from rocks. White lesions appear, like festering canker sores. Then the star explodes as organs rupture though the body wall....
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Australia: Killer starfish threatens Great Barrier Reef
2014-02-16 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Waves of carnivorous starfish are eating their way through Australia's Great Barrier Reef - and sugar cane farming is being blamed. Researchers at Australia's Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), just outside Townsville, Queensland, in north-east Australia, have mapped the pattern of destruction. "Coral cover is half of what it was 27 years ago, coral cover is going down at an alarming rate." Dr Katharina Fabricius, coral reef ecologist and AIMS principal research scientist, told the BBC World...
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