Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

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Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them? (www.biographic.com)

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>I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely large enough to hold a sandwich. It’s eating lunch. I am in a garage-like government laboratory on the curled tip of Washington state’s Marrowstone Island, not far from a dark and drippy cedar forest at the northern edge of Puget Sound. Tubes pump icy ocean water into dozens of containers, each of which serves as a makeshift condominium for a single baby sea star. Around me, scientists are popping off lids and documenting which container walls each animal is touching. “Near side, left side, bottom,” one murmurs as another jots notes.

Archive: https://archive.today/rjatD From the post: >>I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely large enough to hold a sandwich. It’s eating lunch. I am in a garage-like government laboratory on the curled tip of Washington state’s Marrowstone Island, not far from a dark and drippy cedar forest at the northern edge of Puget Sound. Tubes pump icy ocean water into dozens of containers, each of which serves as a makeshift condominium for a single baby sea star. Around me, scientists are popping off lids and documenting which container walls each animal is touching. “Near side, left side, bottom,” one murmurs as another jots notes.

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Oh look, another self important author who thinks highly of himself (without reason) inserting himself into a story at the beginning of an article that he was tasked to write, as if that will somehow get a publisher to notice him and say "hey, your writing style, although EXACTLY like every other "writer" these days, has captured our attention. Here is a book deal".

These writers need to learn the same lesson as Hollywood: NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR AGENDA. WRITE WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF CAPTIVATING THE CONSUMER OF YOUR MEDIA, NOT PROMOTING YOUR BULLSHIT.

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