Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations ... Some of the crabs can eat 20 juveniles a day, whereas fish or triton may eat one adult every few ...

The prey fish, in turn, are eaten by many species ... is a voracious feeder that can eat living corals because of a unique adaptation: a wax-digesting enzyme system. Populations of the starfish ...

We've also sued to protect these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae — fish whose activities sustain entire reef ecosystems — as well as to obtain a proposed recovery ...

Scientists have debunked the belief that using tools is unique to mammals and birds, after documenting tropical fish that ...

And what they do is, they can devastate coral reefs because they eat coral. And our concern ... kind of home to loads of animals and loads of fish and these starfish are very, very good at ...

As the world celebrated World Oceans Day on June 8, environmentalists here are concerned about a rapidly growing coral-eating startfish ... contributed to an increased population of the star fish, the ...

Researchers have found crabs are key predators of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish and could be a hidden link to what ...

The "coral defenders" are made of plastic called PHA. Similar to a potato starch, it naturally breaks down when exposed, ...

Scientists discovered that crabs eat young crown-of-thorns starfish, reducing their population before they damage coral reefs.