Saving a species: UW scientists release first lab-grown sea stars
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Publicado 2024-08-10
After disease nearly wiped out the population across the west coast about 10 years ago, University of Washington researchers were tasked with saving the species. Using some of the few existing sea stars in the Friday Harbor region, scientists, led by researcher Jason Hodin, bred and nurtured multiple generations of lab-grown sea stars.
The breeding process started in 2019 and finally, in August, the years of waiting came to fruition and the first group of lab-grown sea stars was released into the wild for the first time ever.
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We need to get sea corals growing.
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Thank you UW for working so hard on this you've been able to get this far. Good luck to you and the newly released sea stars!
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Bravo! Thank you!!!
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why don't they have have an undersea pen for the sea stars where they can roam about but with a limited protected area and rebuild a population in this way.. Seastars ae probably territorial so they could have a substantial playpen along the coastline somewhere marked with buoys for identification. Once they have a pen, they can always release or add a few t a time or watch for population growth.
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Love it - never stop covering stuff like this
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Hmm... I wonder if the sea stars are affected by the endocrine disrupting chemicals in the plastic totes they were kept in. The EDC in plastic are known to be detrimental to fertility in other animals.
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She blinded me with science.
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I recall seeing them from ferry docks when I first moved here more than 20 years ago. Some were purple and others orange and gold. It’s just another massive die off on our sick planet. 🤷🏼♀️
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This will be a problem
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Great job and wholesome news 🙂
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Interesting
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Hello, is this the Krusty Krabs?
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Saying goodbye to his babies! It's emotional
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how cool!
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😊❤
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I didn't know that Star Fish are on the endangered list. Makes sense though. Since its reported that wild animal life on Earth on average has declined 69% just since 1970. Animal life including humans will in the not too distance future be in big trouble. And all people are worried about is whether they will have air conditioning, and electricity to charge up their electric cars in future---- global climate change. If there was no climate change at all, the decline of wild animal life would still be occurring, and the extinction event (the 6th one in Earth's history) would still be an existential threat to our food supply because the decline is also occurring in flying insect populations at the same rate. The flying insects are the main pollinators of our most nutritious food products.
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🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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Wow. Half a dozen Sea Stars. Yawn.
