Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: It was like something out of a seaside horror movie. 
  
 Sea stars, once familiar and beautiful and iconic, suddenly had lesions covering their bodies; a sign that something was horribly wrong. Within a day, the stars with lesions started to melt, turning into globs of goo. And, soon after, any sea stars near them suffered the same gruesome fate. 
  
 In all, from 2013 to 2014, millions of sea stars died, the largest known Sea Star Wasting Syndrome incident on record. The die-off spanned from British Columbia to the shores of Southern California down to Mexico. It was, and is, a mystery. 
  
 But now, marine scientists are looking in Southern California tidepools and seeing hope — in the form of new, palm-sized sea stars. 
  
 Colorful starfish cling to the seafloor of a kelp forest in Monterey Bay, California. Kelp forests throughout California harbor extraordinary marine biodiversity. 
  
 A healthy sea star clings onto a rock at Crystal Cove a few weeks ago. Photo courtesy of Crystal Cove Conservancy. 
  
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 This undated photo released by the Rocky Intertidal Lab at the University of California-Santa Cruz shows a starfish suffering from “sea star wasting disease” – it’s missing one arm and has tissue damage to another. Marine scientists are finding a large number of dead starfish along the West Coast stricken with the disease that causes the creatures to lose their arms and disintegrate. The affliction causes white lesions to develop, which can spread and turn the animals into “goo”, and has killed up to 95 percent of a particular species of sea star in some tide pool populations. “They essentially melt in front of you,” said Pete Raimondi, chairman of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Lab. (AP Photo/Laura Anderson, Rocky Intertidal Lab UC Santa Cruz) 
  
 A healthy sea star clings onto a rock at Crystal Cove a few weeks ago. Photo courtesy of Crystal Cove Conservancy. 
  
 A healthy sea star clings onto a rock at Crystal Cove a few weeks ago. Photo courtesy of Crystal Cove Conservancy. 
  
  
  
 Starfish or sea stars on pier pilings. (Photo Courtesy Joe Katchka) 
  
 Starfish or sea stars on pier pilings. (Photo Courtesy Joe Katchka) 
  
 “They are coming back, big time,” said Darryl Deleske, aquarist for the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro. 
  
 “It’s a huge difference… A couple of years ago, you wouldn’t find any. I dove all the way as far as Canada, specifically looking for sea stars, and found not a single one.” 
  
 And the same signs are being seen around Southern California, in places like the rocky outcroppings off Crystal Cove State Beach and the breakwalls in Long Beach and the coves of Palos Verdes. 
  
 A team at the University of Santa Cruz are believed to be the foremost expert son the latest Sea Star Wasting Disease, documenting early die offs and charting where the disease spread. 
  
 According to the researchers, it’s not the first time the mysterious wasting syndrome has hit the West Coast.There were similar die offs in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, “but never before at this magnitude, and over such a wide geographic area,” reads a report by University of Santa Cruz’ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. 
  
 It was first seen in a group of ochre stars during a monitoring survey in June 2013 along the coast of Washington state. Over the next few months it spread. 
  
 After the ochre stars, other species started melting — the mottled star, leather stars, sunflower stars, rainbows and six-armed stars. In August 2013, divers saw a massive die off of sunflower stars north of Vancouver, British Columbia. In October and November that year, a similar mass death occurred in Monterrey, California, then in Seattle, Washington. By December 2013, the wasting disease hit Southern California. 
  
 “When it did (arrive), you just started to see them melt everywhere,” said Deleske. 
  
 “You’d see an arm here, an arm there.” 
  
 By 2014, the wasting had spread to Mexico and Oregon, according to the University of Santa Cruz research paper. 
  
 Researchers have spent years trying to figure out what caused the Sea Star Wasting Syndrome. Was it warmer-than-normal water temperatures? A team from Cornell University attempted to identify possible viruses and bacteria that might be responsible. It also could have been caused by an infectious agent, such as a pathogen, the report reads. 
  
 “I believe it’s a virus, but it’s unknown where it started,” Deleske said. 
  
 Kaitlin Magliano, education coordinator at the Crystal Cove Conservancy, said winter low tides have offered a good look at hand-size stars emerging recently in local tidepools. 
  
 “It’s a treasure we always hope to find,’ she said. 
  
 During an outing in early December, just south of the historic cottages at Crystal Cove State Park, Magliano spotted four stars; “huge, adult ones” she said, about 7 to 8 inches long. They’re the biggest stars she’s seen since before the wasting syndrome hit. 
  
 “Post sea star wasting, we lost all of them,” she said. “It’s good to see we have some surviving and thriving… 
  
 “Maybe the next generation will be more resilient,” she added. 
  
 On an average dive along the Long Beach or Los Angeles break walls, Deleske will see anywhere from 20 to 25 sea stars, most in the 10- to 12-inch range. He’s seeing mostly ochre stars; the nobby stars, and the bat stars, also are coming back, but he’s not yet seen any sign of the pink stars or sunflower stars. 
  
 The wasting also hit Cabrillo Aquarium’s sea star exhibit. Stars that had reached a size of more than 20 inches — after growing for 25 years or longer — died. Now, there are six small, young stars in the aquarium’s touch tank. 
  
 “We had to start over,’ Deleske said. “That was really unfortunate… Now it’s just going to take another 15 years to get really big like they once were.” 
  
 Deleske and researchers say traces of the Sea Star Wasting Syndrome remain in nature, and the stars aren’t completely out of danger. 
  
 A Nov. 29 update by the University of Santa Cruz documented reports from areas in the Salish Sea region of Washington that the Sea Star Wasting Syndrome had re-emerged and is again impacting ochre and mottled stars. Elsewhere, including in waters of British Columbia and north and central California, the disease has persisted at a low level, according to the report. 
  
 Two months ago, researchers at the Cabrillo Aquarium started to experiment with treating some sick stars with antibiotics, leaving others to fight disease naturally. The treated stars seemed to fare better, offering some hope. 
  
 “They don’t seem to be dying like they used to,” Deleske said. 
  
 “We’ve seen some good results.” 
  
 Want to try and see stars? 
  
 Winter months offer the lowest tides of the year and low crowds, a good time to explore tide pools. But don’t forget tide pool etiquette and never pick up, move, poke or prode organisms in tidepools. Nothing can be taken, including animals, rocks and shells, from Marine Protected Areas like Crystal Cove or Laguna Beach. 
  
 The Crystal Cove Conservancy will be offering a tidepool walk with a guide to Pelican Point at 1 p.m. on December 30, when there will be a low -0.8 tide. Meet at the Pelican Point parking lot #2, at the top of the boardwalk near the parking lot. Parking is $15. More info: crystalcove.org. ||||| FILE - This July 31, 2010 file photo, shows a starfish clings to a rock near Haystack Rock during low tide in Cannon Beach, Ore. Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - This July 31, 2010 file photo, shows a starfish clings to a rock near Haystack Rock during low tide in Cannon Beach, Ore. Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - This July 31, 2010 file photo, shows a starfish clings to a rock near Haystack Rock during low tide in Cannon Beach, Ore. Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars... (Associated Press) FILE - This July 31, 2010 file photo, shows a starfish clings to a rock near Haystack Rock during low tide in Cannon Beach, Ore. Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious... (Associated Press) 
  
 NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. 
  
 From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico. The starfish would develop lesions and then disintegrate, their arms turning into blobs of goo. 
  
 The cause is unclear but researchers say it may be a virus. 
  
 But now, the species is rebounding. Sea stars are being spotted in Southern California tide pools and elsewhere, the Orange County Register reported Tuesday. 
  
 "They are coming back, big time," Darryl Deleske, aquarist for the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in Los Angeles, told the newspaper. 
  
 "It's a huge difference," Deleske said. "A couple of years ago, you wouldn't find any. I dove all the way as far as Canada, specifically looking for sea stars, and found not a single one." 
  
 Similar die-offs of starfish on the West Coast were reported in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, but the latest outbreak was far larger and more widespread, according to a report by researchers at the University of Santa Cruz. 
  
 Beginning with ochre stars off Washington state, the disease spread, killing off mottled stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, rainbows and six-armed stars. 
  
 It hit Southern California by December 2013. 
  
 "When it did (arrive), you just started to see them melt everywhere," said Deleske. "You'd see an arm here, an arm there." 
  
 The recovery has been promising. 
  
 Four adult sea stars, each about 7 to 8 inches long, were spotted this month at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach. 
  
 "It's a treasure we always hope to find,' said Kaitlin Magliano, education coordinator at the Crystal Cove Conservancy. 
  
 "We lost all of them," she said. "It's good to see we have some surviving and thriving . Maybe the next generation will be more resilient." 
  
 The stars aren't out of danger yet. 
  
 The wasting syndrome never completely disappeared in Northern and Central California and it has reappeared in the Salish Sea region of Washington state, according to a November report by the University of Santa Cruz. |||||
Output:
Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico. The starfish would develop lesions, then disintegrate, their arms turning into blobs of goo. The cause is unclear, but researchers say it may be a virus, per the AP. Now, however, the species is rebounding. Sea stars are being spotted in Southern California tide pools and elsewhere, the Orange County Register reports. "They are coming back, big time," says Darryl Deleske, an aquarist for LA's Cabrillo Marine Aquarium. "It's a huge difference. A couple of years ago, you wouldn't find any." Similar die-offs of starfish on the West Coast were reported in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, but the latest outbreak was far larger and more widespread, per a report by University of California-Santa Cruz researchers. Beginning with ochre stars off Washington state, the disease spread, killing off mottled stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, rainbows, and six-armed stars. It hit Southern California by December 2013. "When it did [arrive], you just started to see them melt everywhere," says Deleske. "You'd see an arm here, an arm there." The recovery has been promising. Four adult sea stars, each about 7 to 8 inches long, were spotted this month at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach. The stars aren't out of danger yet, though. The wasting syndrome never completely disappeared in Northern and central California, and it's reappeared in the Salish Sea region of Washington, per a recent report. Still, "it's good to see we have some surviving and thriving," an educator at Crystal Cove Conservancy says. "Maybe the next generation will be more resilient."