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Over the last four years, sea star wasting syndrome caused millions of starfish to turn into blobs of goo. The mysterious virus infected many species of stars from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska. Luckily, sea star populations in Oregon and California are making a comeback with a starfish baby boom!
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The Thompson family adopted Pilot the kitten in 2004. He disappeared three years later and the Thompsons moved from California to Colorado in 2010. After hearing about hundreds of cats rescued in recent wildfires in California, Jenn Thompson decided to adopt one. It was Pilot! He’s been reunited with his family 13 years later!
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A new app was launched at the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument in California. The game is called “Agents of Discovery” and is like Pokemon Go for real life. Visitors use their phones to collect points by spotting plants and animals in the desert park.
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Three schools in California have a special after-school activity for special needs students. The Warrior Goat Program teaches the students how to raise goats and show them at fairs. Student Keira Van Patten and six classmates started the program to give special needs kids something fun to do after school besides sports.
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A 300-pound sphinx was unearthed in California! But it wasn’t from ancient Egypt. The plaster sphinx, found in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, was once a movie prop from Cecil B DeMille’s 1923 film, “The Ten Commandments”. The huge movie set was too expensive to destroy so it was buried at a secret location.
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