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California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished

California's sunflower sea stars were nearly erased by wasting disease and warming water. Recently, scientists found 18 of them off the Sonoma County coast. SFGATE reports that divers near Sea Ranch found the largest known group of wild sunflower sea stars seen in California waters since a mass die-off began in 2013. — Read the rest The post California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished appeared first on Boing Boing.
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