Millions of starfish died in a long-term period. Scientists say they know now why.

Scientists say they have been resolved in the last two billions of sea-knell – usually known as a star star

In 2013, a mysterious sea star begins Lost disease A mass flowing from Mexico to Alaska. The epidemic has broken more than 20 species and lasts today. The worst hit of a type of Sunflower Sea Starthat lost about 90% of his population in the first five years of the first five years.

“It is really very tired,” said Marine Ecolog Alyssa Gehman helped in the Hakai Institute in British Columbia, Canada, who did for the reason.

The “PUFF weapons standing straight up,” she said. But the lost disease causes that they grow older and “then their weapons really get off.”

The flower? Bacteria that according to a study Monday in a journalist, natural ecology and development was published.

Views of “a long-standing question about a very serious illness,” Rebecca vega thurber, Microbiology of Microbiology of California, Santa Barbara was attended.

Sea stars usually receive five weapons and some kinds of sports up to 24 weapons. They are in a solid orange color for tapestries of orange, purple, brown and green.

“Symptoms of the sea syndrome of the sea, white weapons, white wounds, body’s deflation, loss of hand, body damage, and parting the body,” The National Park Service says. “They die in days or weeks.”

It took more than decades for researchers to identify the cause of the disease, with many lead and lead and turn on the road.

The initial study may cause a virus, but at first it was a normal resident and related to the disease, said Melanie Prentice of Hakai Institute, New Training Co-Chair.

Another attempts forgot the actual assassinations because researchers of the deadly sea stars that are no longer in the physical body that surrounds organs.

But the latest study in detailed analysis of this fever, called Colexiki Field, which was found a bacteria pectenicida.

“It is very difficult to spend the source of environmental illnesses, especially in the water,” said Microbiologist Blake Blake, White Carolina, Wilmington, which attended the research. He said the detective work by this team was “really wise and important.”

Now that the scientist knows the reason, there is a better shot in the intervening to help sea stars. The international unity has recorded as a rice sea star to protect nature critical critters.

Prentice said the scientists can now try to test the rest of the sea-or they are in captivity they have lost in areas that have almost all of their Sun Suns.

Scientists can compensate if some individuals are self-confident, and if treatments such as problems may help the cost.

The work of such correction is not only for sea stars, but for the entire Pacific Ecosystems because a healthy star may have a researcher of large ocean orchins.

When you see them, SunFlower stars see the Sunflower’s stars “, but they are almost everything that lives on the sea,” said Gehman. “They are voracious food.”

With many sea stars, the sea is exploded by the sea, and in the north of 95% of Kelp in north of California went to the north of the California. These Kelp Forests provide food and house for a variety of animals, including fish, sea seas and beach.

Researchers expect new views to restore the peoples of the ocean – and in the kelp forests that thumb is related to the “rainforest rainforests.