Pandemic wipes out all black sea urchins in Gulf of Eilat within 2 months

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Source: Tel Aviv University

New studies reveal a deadly epidemic causing mass mortality of black sea urchins has wiped out the entire population in the Gulf of Eilat over a couple of months and threatens the coral reef.

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