Starfish Smoothie

Pacific coast starfish have been melting mysteriously for more than a year, and marine biologists now think they know why: densovirus. Armed with a Nutribullet (as seen on TV!), they traced the mass melting to a virus by mushing up dead starfish in a blender and injecting the resulting goo into healthy starfish, which then got sick. The finding places sea stars alongside bats and bees on the list of species decimated by pathogens in recent years. Huffington Post.