A mysterious disease is turning sea stars to goo and leading to huge die-offs across the North Pacific. The disease, known as Sea Star Wasting Syndrome (SSWS), warps their limbs and causes their ...

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The disease starts as lesions on the sea star's body and then essentially melts tissues over the course of about two weeks, eventually reducing sea star bodies to goo. However, sea stars can present ...

WASHINGTON — 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. Sea stars – often known ...

Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it's not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease ...