If you think raising healthy kids is tough, try sea stars. Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences are taking on the challenge in the face of a dangerous environmental threat along our own coastline.
California Academy of Sciences is raising sea stars, whose population was devastated during an ocean heat wave."So, the spatulas are simulating water currents in the ocean. So we don't want these guys in stagnant water. We want them up in the water column so they can eat," says marine biologist Riah Evin.
"They were particularly hard hit, especially here in California, and they really haven't made a recovery. There are a few occurrences in the wild of these animals, but they're really hard to see and really hard to find," Johnson says. "Yeah. It's crazy that these guys are going to grow up to be these keystone apex predators," says Evin, pointing to the tiny, translucent larvae. "But they will."
There are already proposals to restore native sea otters that vanished from our coast after being hunted nearly to extinction. While labs like the Academy are also working with genetic variations of Coral, that could someday be used to repopulate coral reefs devastated by climate change.Researchers use underwater technology in Monterey Bay to unlock mysteries of rare octopus garden
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