Meet the crown-of-thorns starfish. But don t ever touch one. This huge, 18-inch-wide starfish comes covered in sharp venomous spines that can land you in the hospital if you tried to pick one up ...

The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS), scientifically known as Acanthaster sp., is a significant predator of coral reefs, particularly in tropical marine environments. These starfish are notorious ...

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 ...

An aggregation of crown-of-thorns starfish feeding on a plate coral on the Great Barrier Reef A crown-of-thorns starfish feeding on a plate coral on the Great Barrier Reef Crown-of-thorns starfish ...

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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 ...

A recent workshop at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory has led to the formation of a specialized team to address the ...

Insights into reproductive trends, predation patterns, and climatic triggers observed prior to a crown-of-thorns outbreak are ...

The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is wreaking havoc on coral reefs, fueled by warming oceans and explosive reproduction rates. Enter COTSBot, the robot assassin designed to hunt and neutralize ...

Where crown-of-thorn starfish are of concern, such as on the GBR, key sites can be targeted by fleets of boats with dive teams that are dedicated to killing the coral-eating starfish.

Staghorn corals are also vulnerable to certain predators, like the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci), which have proliferated since the 1970s. In large numbers, crown-of-thorns ...