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 ...

“And they pretty much exclusively eat coral,” Allen added. “They eat a lot of coral.” They grow to about a meter in diameter, so it takes a lot of coral to keep an adult crown-of- thorns fed. When an ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...