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 ...

Researchers have uncovered an under-the-sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have ... blooms and the number of coral-eating COTS. "If we can figure out how to ...

The degraded reef framework explains how the loss of live coral, which crown-of-thorns starfish feed off ... of COTS as they transition into coral-eating adults when corals start to recover.

While crown-of-thorns starfish are native to the Reef ... term data demonstrated that suppressing outbreaks of the coral-eating starfish has great benefits for the Marine Park.

These injections are currently the only way to cull coral-eating sea stars called crown-of-thorns, or COTS ... When researchers cut one of the starfish into two equal halves, both halves healed ...

Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) are a large species of starfish that eat corals, so-named for their spiny appearance. They can grow up to about 3 feet across, and have up to 21 arms, coated in ...

but Queensland scientists have discovered the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) larvae eat the bacteria, the only animals to do so. They say that understanding the sea sawdust better could be the ...

In a world first study, University of Queensland PhD candidates Marie Morin and Mathias Jönsson analysed the genetics of the toxic coral-eating invertebrates found on the Great Barrier Reef. First ...

To eat, they slide their stomachs out through ... and continue the hunt. A diver spears a crown-of-thorns starfish (taramea) with a sharp stick attached to a string with a stopper at the other ...