{"id":175707,"date":"2025-09-13T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=175707"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:16:42","slug":"scientists-say-they-have-solved-the-mystery-of-what-killed-more-than-5-billion-sea-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=175707","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars \u2014 also known as starfish \u2014 off the Pacific coast of North America. Starting in 2013, a wasting disease caused a mass die-off from Mexico to Alaska, devastating more than 20 species. The sunflower sea star was worst hit&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/scientists-say-they-have-solved-the-mystery-of-20801000.php\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars \u2014 also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}