Scientists are breeding sea stars in a lab in a Jurassic Park approach to combating climate change Published May 3 A healthy sunflower sea star that measures three feet across cruises across the bottom of waters off British Columbia. These stars are among the largest and fastest-moving in the world and possess as many as 20 or more rays. (Neil McCaniel / The Washington Post) Share on Facebook Print article In an island laboratory off the coast of Washington state, scientists are bringing back to life a gorgeously ferocious predator that suddenly perished amid a climate change-driven marine heat wave seven years ago.