hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While we know crown-of ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again flourishing along the Great Barrier Reef. Symon Dworjanyn is a professor of marine ecology at Southern Cross university. "Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

holds one of many coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish found during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation event of 2015-2017. A recently published study out of the University of Guam Marine ...

environmentalists here are concerned about a rapidly growing coral-eating startfish, in the East coast. Marine naturalist Prasanna Weerakkody issued this warning after spotting an increased population ...

jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a voracious feeder that can eat living corals because of ...

Like other corals in the Acropora genus, staghorn corals use tiny, stinging tentacles to snatch and eat small ... numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef.

There’s also the issue of poor water quality caused by sediment run-off and pollution, as well as outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish. As the world laments the threats facing ...

An aggregation of crown-of-thorns starfish feeding on a plate coral on the Great Barrier Reef A crown-of-thorns starfish feeding on a plate coral on the Great Barrier Reef Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

But he had heard from a local guide at Sakieda Bay that coral there have been miraculously revived. According to an expert, the hunting of crown-of-thorns starfish has helped restore some of the ...