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 ...

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 coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts are re-evaluating the benefits of restoration missions ...

As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts show that over a third of restoration projects fail ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a rare example of 'great fish parenting' with a common coral reef species found to actively protect their young by eating ... Coral Adaptation ...

As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts show that over a third of restoration projects fail and might never be scalable enough to have positive effects on reef ...