How do you ‘grow’ an endangered starfish? Bay Area scientists are finding out | Sunflower sea stars vanished from California a decade ago. Experiments are underway to breed them in local labs

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How do you ‘grow’ an endangered starfish? Bay Area scientists are finding out | Sunflower sea stars vanished from California a decade ago. Experiments are underway to breed them in local labs

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California@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Are sunflower stars extinct in California?

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The return of kelp forests in northern California will depend in part on the return of sunflower stars, a kind of starfish that were decimated by a disease in 2013.

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