Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a voracious feeder that can eat living corals ... Many sea sponges, like anemones, use toxins to repel ...

Comb jellies might have evolved to eat their young when prey runs out, but some experts are skeptical of the strategy Theresa Machemer The specimen may be the earliest known example of a squid ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

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Small, 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 ...

The paper, published in scientific journal PNAS this week, is one of the first to consider what animals eat the notorious starfish in their juvenile stages. Study co-author Sven Uthicke said the ...

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 ...