Bringing back sunflower sea stars, which are functionally extinct in California, could help restore kelp forests off the ...

Year round this same species can be found all along the West Coast, from Baja California to Alaska. But in 2014, a disease nearly brought them to extinction here.

“It's kind of like the … ‘you don't know what you have until it's gone’ adage,” said Norah Eddy, associate director of the Nature Conservancy's oceans program in California. However, she added, if the ...