Updated on January 31, 2021 at 8:52 pm
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Along the west coast, the ocean floor has been taken over by a population explosion of purple sea urchins, which have wiped out kelp beds and left sea floors barren.
One theory is that because of warming oceans, starfish, natural predators of purple urchins, have died off.
A Bodega Bay research team led by researcher Karl Menard is hoping to stop the spread of purple urchins by making them delicious.
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