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In this May 20, 2019 photo, a container at the Bodega Marine Lab in Bodega Bay, Calif. holds hundreds of live purple urchins harvested from the Mendocino County coast where they have been decimating kelp forests. Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are now spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death. (Photo by Terry Chea/AP Photo)
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