Sometimes new parents get lucky. They get “easy” babies. Young sunflower sea stars are the fussy kind—but their adoptive ...
"Disease epidemic and a marine heat wave are associated with the continental-scale collapse of a pivotal predator (Pycnopodia helianthoides)." ...
Populations of sunflower sea stars, or Pycnopodia helianthoides, have rapidly collapsed since 2013, in part due to a disease called sea star wasting syndrome that may have been worsened by warming ...