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Photographer Gary McKeating made the discovery on Monday night when he headed to Harrington beach to take pictures of the sunset. He was horrified to come across what he estimates were around 2,000 starfish on the sands. Experts say…
Photo By Amy Campanelli – Facebook Thousands of starfish washed up on the beach at Isle of Palms over the weekend. And it turns out, this happens a few times each winter on Lowcountry beaches. Usually, strong off-shore…
THOUSANDS of dead starfish have washed up on a beach in Abergele after a period of stormy weather. Shocked amateur photographer, Gordon McGookin, initially thought that Pensarn beach was covered in rubbish when he went out for a walk…
A colony of at least 2,000 starfish that washed up dead on the southernmost part of Padre Island National Seashore is no cause for alarm, according to park officials. Water temperatures leading up to the time of the Jan.…
Countless dead starfish lie on a beach of Westerland. Photo: AP radio image“The sea gives and takes” Storms have cost thousands of starfish in the range of Westerland life. From tighter spaces removed (such as mussel beds), the animals could…
Thousands of starfish were stranded on Fripp Island on Christmas Eve, likely because of the day’s stormy weather, according to a marine veterinarian. Al Segars of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources said he had not looked into the stranding,…
A significant fish kill in the Kapoho tide pools this weekend represents yet another worrisome event within a fragile ecosystem that is seemingly under siege from all sides. Usually teeming with brightly colored fish and diversity of coral reefs, the…
A wasting disease has nearly wiped out all the starfish at Haystack Rock–a popular visitors’ destination on the Oregon Coast. Haystack Rock Awareness Program Coordinator Samantha Ferber says roughly 90 percent of the starfish, which are also called sea stars…
Drew Harvell peers into the nooks and crannies along the rocky shoreline of Eastsound on Orcas Island. Purple and orange starfish clutch the rocks, as if hanging on for dear life. “It’s a lot worse than it was last week,”…
Just in the past two weeks, the incidence of sea star wasting syndrome has exploded along the Oregon coast and created an epidemic of historic magnitude, one that threatens to decimate Oregon’s entire population of purple ochre sea stars, experts…
