Starfish tear themselves apart

Nature always has a deep Gothic reach.  This week we learn of a starfish plague, one which causes the animals to literally tear themselves apart.

From PBS:

KATIE CAMPBELL: First, the stars twist their arms into knots, and sometimes lesions form on their skin.

BEN MINER: One of them was very sick, and the other two individuals started ripping themselves apart. The arms just crawl away from the particular body.

KATIE CAMPBELL: You heard that right. The arms crawl in opposite directions, until they tear away from the body and their insides spill out. And unlike most starfish, the arms don’t regenerate. Stars that came in with symptoms died within 24 hours.

It reads like the start of an apocalyptic story.

(photo by Cielo de la Paz (clogozm))

Comments

[Bob's Juice]

It's because the pollution. Human race doesn't deserve all the beauties of this planet,we don't know how to conserve it or we don't want to do this.