Scientists Single Out a Suspect in Starfish Carnage: Warming Oceans

By Kendra Pierre-Louis In 2013, starfish — including the morning sun star, the richly hued ochre star and the sunflower star, whose limbs can span four feet across — started dying by the millions along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska. They were succumbing to a wasting disease. It began with white lesions on their …