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Over the past 27 years, Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its live coral cover, and a type of starfish is partly to blame for the alarming decline. Mark Eakin, head of NOAA's Coral ...
It is known that crown of thorns starfish lie in wait as algae-eating young before attacking coral. But new research shows the starfish that devastates reef habitats can remain in its juvenile ...
Coral reefs worldwide, including the Great Barrier Reef, have faced severe damage from recent bleaching events caused by ...
"The blue starfish is also a coral reef predator that lives in the same habitat as the crown-of-thorns starfish, but it doesn't produce these uncontrollable outbreaks," said Prof. Satoh.
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 ...
A species of destructive starfish is being culled by researchers to save the Great Barrier Reef. Crown-of-thorns starfish can decimate coral reefs, munching through up to 108 square feet of coral ...
SYDNEY – A major outbreak of coral-eating crown of thorns starfish has been found munching Australia’s world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, scientists said on Friday, prompting the gover… ...
The Australian agency found that 87 coral reefs generally had low levels of acute stress from things such as cyclones and increases in the crown-of-thorns starfish population.
A single starfish can consume up to 65 square feet of living coral reef every single year. To stop them, RangerBot is trained to identify these starfish — which it can do with 99.4 percent ...
Coral reefs are dying everywhere. As the home of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, that’s bad news. Coral reefs protect our coastlines from waves and tropical storms, while also sheltering ...