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A team of international researchers discovered the cause of a sea-star wasting disease Bennett Whitnell/Hakai Institute; Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute The cause of a sea star-wasting disease was ...

More than a decade after a mysterious sickness began killing billions of sea stars off the Pacific Coast, scientists say they've identified the bacteria that causes the deadly disease. A team of at ...

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