[nickcarraway]

See video.

[null and void]

What’s the half life of the isotopes from Fukushima?

Just askin’...

[Fiji Hill]

Sea stars? I call them starfish.

[COBOL2Java]

[Joe 6-pack]

Obama admin was killing starfish. Trump won just in time.

[Tax-chick]

It’s almost as if nature regulates itself. The population of a predator such as “sea stars” - starfish, as was - declines because of some factor. Then the population of what they ate explodes. Then the remaining population of the predator experiences unusual growth.

Like, DUH.

[DouglasKC]

Seastar Ebola....ran its course and population rebounded.

[atc23]

We were just talking about this recovery yesterday while diving off Newport and Laguna Beach. I hadn’t seen any Sea Stars in quite a few years diving Southern California but I saw 5 or 6 yesterday.

As well, the Abalone are really doing well too - and not just little ones either, 8 and 10 inch I saw yesterday- DOZENS in a single crack in the reef

[hanamizu]

It was just a few years ago that starfish were destroying clam/bivalve populations and were considered a scourge. Then something comes along that turns them to goo and people begin to worry about them. It’s always something.

[dainbramaged]

Years ago my great aunt owned some good sized oyster beds on Hood Canal (WA), and she would have us kids gather up all the starfish we could at low tide and put them on her compost pile.

[null and void]

Now, I know you’re not the only starfish in the sea
If I never hear your name again, it’s all the same to me

And I think it’s gonna be alright
Yeah, the worst is over now
The mornin’ sun is shinin’ like a red rubber ball

[WMarshal]

I'm not surprised one damned bit. Humans have been trying to kill cockroaches for hundreds of years and they keep springing back in spite of whatever poisons we throw at them. I'm not saying starfish are dirty like cockroaches but I am saying that they have the same breading strategy. Every starfish releases millions of eggs and not one of them receive any parental care. This mass breeding/spawning strategy means that there will always be at least a few individuals in every generation that have some immunity to whatever is killing the rest of the species.

Just to drive the point home, each arm of the starfish has a gonad and every individual starfish has at least 5 gonads each.

My prediction is that when humans are all dead and gone, there will still be starfish.

[DAC21]

My sister-in-law just told me on Christmas day that their new pup had pulled three dried starfish Christmas tree ornaments off the tree and Munch them down. Nice to know they’re not toxic the dog is doing fine.

[Vermont Lt]

I wonder what could cause cell walls to decay like that? Could it be little neutrons blasting them to pieces?

We will never know. But if you have eyes, it can be figured out.

[alexander_busek]

According to Wikipedia, there are about 1,500 different species of Starfish.

Thus, referring to a "come-back" of "Sea Stars" is about as vague and confusing as writing about a "resurgence" of "Mammals."

The author of the article deserves to have his journalist's credentials revoked.

Regards,