Over the past decade, a mysterious disease has devastated the starfish’s population. The decline is not only a disaster for the sea stars.
Wednesday that it is proposing to list the sunflower sea star as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a status that suggests this crucial ocean species is only steps away from extinction.has devastated the starfish’s population. The decline is not only a disaster for the sea stars. Their disappearance also threatens to worsen the effects of climate change by degrading underwater kelp forests that suck up carbon dioxide.
The disease also has decimated more than a dozen other starfish species along the U.S. Pacific Coast. It is a gruesome way to go. A sick sea star festers with white, oozing lesions until its organs spill out of its body and its arms detach, sometimes walking away on their own.
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