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 ...

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 ...

It turns out these balls of spikes are actually 5-sided echinoderms and thus related to starfish! We look at their beautiful ...

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 ...