Starmageddon: Last Days for Starfish?
Over the past several weeks, thousands upon thousands of starfish have washed up dead on Britain’s beaches. The cause, as usual, appears to be humans: investigators say the most likely cause is fishing boats that dredge the sea bottom for mussels, either ripping starfish loose and casting them adrift, or suffocating them under mud and sand.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user M. Buschmann.
