Study finds virus likely cause of sea star wasting

Monday, November 17, 2014 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Scientists have isolated a virus they are pretty sure is causing the mysterious disease that has killed millions of sea stars on the Pacific Coast from Southern California to Alaska by causing them to lose their limbs and eventually disintegrate into slime and piles of tiny bones....

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