COSEE Ocean Systems: News
World Oceans Day: Marine diseases hidden beneath the waves incur high economic, ecological costs
Description: It's World Oceans Day, but the state of the seas may not be cause for celebration. Among other maladies in the marine world, millions of sea stars native to the Pacific coast of North America have succumbed to a mysterious disease. Limbs pull away from the sea stars' bodies and organs extrude through their skin. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=241980&org=NSF&from=news
Availability: Full Text
Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 6/6/2017
Reading Level: Basic
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