National Geographic: The devastation caused by a viral infection of sea stars along the United States Pacific coastline shows few signs of abating, continuing to kill its victims in a swift and grisly fashion.
Yet against those odds, a huge new crop of sea star babies popped up after last year's spawning season, surprising researchers who have been tracking the epidemic.
Bruce Menge, an Oregon State University marine ecologist who has studied sea stars along the coast for the past 30 years, found an unprecedented...