Key Sea Star Predator Wiped Out by Disease and Abnormally Warm Waters (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Key Sea Star Predator Wiped Out by Disease and Abnormally Warm Waters (2 of 5)

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Underwater photograph of healthy sunflower star. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 30th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Harvell at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Disease epidemic and a marine heat wave are associated with the continental-scale collapse of a pivotal predator (Pycnopodia helianthoides)."

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[Credit: Ed Gullekson]

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