Thousands of gray sea stars have been spotted washing along Texas beaches this winter, according to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. It's not uncommon for the species to be ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since 2013, sea star wasting disease, worsened by warming oceans, has wiped out 99% of sunflower sea stars from Washington state to Mexico, ...

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