A killer is lurking in the waters off the pacific coast. Silent and lethal, it leaves its decimated victims in tidal pools. They first began to appear in the early summer of 2013. Limp and curled, missing some or all of their limbs, the bodies were little more than globs of slimy tissue.  They were hardly recognizable as what they once were—Sea Stars. Continue reading “Death in the Stars: A Virus Decimates Sea Star Populations Along the Pacific Coast”