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The successful fertilization took place at Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and it included researchers from the Aquarium of the Pacific, California Academy of Sciences, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, and the Sunflower Star Laboratory.
The sunflower sea star, Pycnopodia helianthoides – a stunning behemoth in the invertebrate community with 24 arms measuring up to one meter from tip to tip, one of the largest and heaviest sea stars in the world – was once common in Monterey Bay and the entirety of the west coast