The Great Barrier Reef is full of surprises—even for the scientists who study it every day. Recently, some unlikely potential ...

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 ...

A Crown of Thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, feeds on several species of Montipora corals. The image was taken off the coast of Okinawa near Sesoko Island. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Lorenzo Stephan, a coral reef monitoring team member in Chuuk, holds one of many coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish found during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation event of 2015-2017.

According to an expert, the hunting of crown-of-thorns starfish has helped restore some of the coral reef that had been devastated by environmental changes. Takashi Nakamura, an associate ...

The investigation further identified that human activities on the nearby Zhongye Dao triggered crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks, which became the primary factor in the rapid decline of coral ...

A report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday indicates that the coverage areas of reef-building corals on ...