Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

By mimicking one of their own scents, researchers have found an efficient method of culling the highly destructive ...

When we think about animals, we tend to think of furry four-legged mammals. But 95% of all animal species are ...

Since phytoplankton provide a source of food for crown-of-thorns starfish larvae, the spike improves their survival and development rates. However, he also said recent findings indicate that ...

Then, they would freeze some of the sperm of the males there and take that — plus 10 live, adult starfish and larvae — back with them to the Lower 48. But some of the massive, velvety ...

After spawning, the crown-of-thorns larvae float in the water column ... at what crab species would eat juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish in aquariums, scientists went out on the reef and surveyed ...

It doesn't smell too good sometimes, but you get used to it," Most sea creatures won't touch the stringy mass, but Queensland scientists have discovered the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) larvae ...

Antlion larvae can ‘play dead’ for more than an hour–then, things get random.] One of these changes is muscle contraction. In humans, it causes the gallbladder to contract. For starfish, the ...

Find out more. The crown of thorns starfish larvae, it turns out, consider the sawdust a tasty treat making researchers reboot on what they had previously assumed. Scientists have learnt ...