How do you ‘grow’ an endangered starfish? Bay Area scientists are finding out | Sunflower sea stars vanished from California a decade ago. Experiments are underway to breed them in local labs
How do you ‘grow’ an endangered starfish? Bay Area scientists are finding out | Sunflower sea stars vanished from California a decade ago. Experiments are underway to breed them in local labs
www.mercurynews.com Are sunflower stars extinct in California?
The return of kelp forests in northern California will depend in part on the return of sunflower stars, a kind of starfish that were decimated by a disease in 2013.
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You would imagine that restarting a species with 11 individuals would leave the gene pool too shallow.