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Topic: Starfish

Sea stars on ocean floor (Getty Images/Patrick J. Endres)

Starfish are walking heads: Study

Matthew Rozsa
This May 16, 2014 file photo provided by Oregon State University shows an ochre sea star on the Oregon coast with one leg disintegrating from star wasting syndrome. Scientists are pretty sure they have isolated a virus that is reponsible for the disease that has killed millions of sea stars from Southern California to southern Alaska since summer 2013. Scientist don't know what triggered the massive outbreak of the virus, which has been in the marine environment since at least 1942. (AP/Oregon State University, Elizabeth Cherny-Chipman)

Starfish mystery solved

Joanna Rothkopf
(NOAA)

Lindsay Abrams