The Fight To Save Sunflower Sea Stars
Short Wave
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey everybody, Emily Kwong here. |
| 0:07.8 | Okay, so my notes say we're going to be talking about a voracious sea creature that can have |
| 0:13.0 | up to 24 arms. |
| 0:15.7 | And the person we'll be talking to is NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfield-Boys. |
| 0:19.6 | Hey, Nell. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey there, Emily. |
| 0:21.6 | I have only two arms. |
| 0:24.5 | But I am nonetheless here to tell you about these things. |
| 0:27.3 | I want all your arms around this story. |
| 0:29.4 | Tell us about this many armed, briny beast. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, it's a sea star. |
| 0:33.4 | It's one of the biggest in the world. |
| 0:34.8 | It can be the size of a trash can lid or a, you know, manhole cover or something like that. |
| 0:40.0 | It's called the sunflower sea star. |
| 0:41.9 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:42.9 | So these things used to be common all along the West Coast from Alaska all the way down |
| 0:47.0 | to Baja, California in northern Mexico. |
| 0:48.9 | Yeah, I've heard of these. |
| 0:50.4 | I've seen pictures. |
| 0:51.4 | They're beautiful, though used to be. |
| 0:53.2 | I mean, those are some ominous words. |
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